Re: [O] [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly)

[Scott Randby]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> wrote:
> Scott Randby <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 01/22/2015 05:02 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>>
>>> Now the question is: what is the most appropriate place to *inform*
>>> about his project.  If not the Org-mode discussion list, I really don't
>>> know.  (I assume that nobody denies his *right* to license his work
>>> according to his wishes, of course, for if not, another explanation
>>> would be that this project doesn't have any right to *exist* in the
>>> first place.)
>>
>> Since we cannot view the code of this software, then we have no way of
>> determining before we use it if it has any purpose other than its
>> stated purpose. For all we know, it contains some nasty code that
>> takes over your system and deletes all of your files or worse.
>>
>> To trust this software because the developer seems to have good
>> intentions is foolish. When I saw the announcement, I interpreted it
>> as saying this: "Gee, here is some neat software I wrote. You can't
>> see the code, but trust me, I'm good. I'll open up part of the code
>> maybe sometime, but for now you can try it out for free. I'm not going
>> to cut you off later and make you pay to continue using this wonderful
>> thing. And no, it doesn't do anything bad like steal information or
>> trash systems. Trust me." No thanks, I say. Promote this somewhere
>> else.
>
> I just want to state here that not everybody feels the same as you.

I wasn't expecting that everybody would feel the way I feel about the
matter. It is clear from the discussion that some feel fine with this
software because it is alleged to do something desireable. I don't
feel fine with it because it is closed, and I have the same distrust
of the other pieces of proprietary software that have been promoted on
this list through the years.

Scott

>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
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>> Scott Randby
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