Re: GSOC Project: Merge code from two Realtek Wifi Drivers

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K1BFeZUstc4vjvpbGWo7UUm6SkSik6QxMdm4bxHMmtQ/edit?usp=sharing
> I'm not involved in GSOC mentoring (long discussion omitted), but in
> NetBSD culture you should be aware that several things are not
> greeted by wild enthusiasm:

>   proprietary formats like .docx (maybe I am blurring you with
>   someone else)

>   links to centralized services run by advertising companies

> Were it me -- which it is definitely not!! -- I would want to see
> plain text included in the email, or maybe pdf if diagrams were
> really necessary, and the content produced by Free Software.

I don't much care what the content is produced by, as long as it
conforms to an open spec.  (Indeed, I just recently ran into an
interoperability problem due to ignoring REQUIREDs in the spec...by a
piece of open-source software.)

Actually, that's not quite true.  The more work I have to do to get
something usable (which usually means plain text) out of it, the less I
like it.  But if it doesn't conform to an open spec, there's pretty
much no hope of my getting anything useful out of it.

As for "Free Software"...that, I usually mildly dislike, because most
of the uses of the term in my experience are referring to GPLed
software, which in my opinion is nothing short of hypocritical.

> It could be that others are happy about this and I am the outlier, so
> take this with a grain of salt, if at all.

I don't know whether you're an outlier.  But I too am not interested in
being part of Google's product and would require substantial incentive,
shall we say, in order to be interested in trying to winkle content out
of a .docx or anything similarly obfuscated.  (I didn't see the mail
you quoted the docs.google.com link above from.  But I did see a mail
on tech-kern saying it was some proposal with links to docs.google.com
and www.icloud.com, with an attachment with a .docx name; my reaction
was an eyeroll and a delete.)

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