RE: [MiNT] What's in, what's out?

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Frank Naumann
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 11:45 PM
> To: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] What's in, what's out?

> > I don't think that voting makes sense -- indeed everybody can
> fork his own
> > development tree if there's enough dissatisfaction.
>
> Compared to? What is with the name FreeMiNT? Who is allowed to use it?

I don't think anybody owns it unless it's trademarked. However it would
certainly be bad style to fork off a different project while keeping the
name.

> > I don't argue with your authority to drive the development the
> way you want
> > it. However it seems to be that there could be a better balance
> between the
> > extremes ("discuss and vote any change" vs "just ignore the
> mailing list and
> > discuss things somewhere else).
>
> That's the point. It sounds hard or prig or whatever, but for my sparetime
> FreeMiNT development I don't need this list. And if I accumulate the time
> I spend to discuss her this topic with you I think it's better that I
> go away and program a nice piece of software instead.

However it seems that you *do* care what people say :-)