2011/11/29 Hector Martinez-Seara <hseara@gmail.com>:
Where I come from, plagiarism is a serious offense. It seems to my non-TU eyes that writing an original application is the least Timothy could do...
Seems to me that where you come from the people has too much free time. I'm starting to be sick about this thing of plagiarism. If something has been done fine once why to reinvent the wheel. It is better to invest one's time in doing something useful. Maybe the only thing that was done wrong in this case was not to add the correct citation to the original source. Hector
-- Hector Martínez-Seara Monné mail: hseara@gmail.com Tel: +34656271145 Tel: +358442709253
Ok I don't have time to write this mail, but I have to do it. Gaetan: Timothy admited he used the Massimiliano's application e-mail for template, that's it, AFAIK i didn't knew (and though he didn't knew either) it was mandatory to write the application from scratch, it's a plus, but it's not mandatory for me. Looking at the work that Timothy have done over the years on OSS world it's impressive and enough for me to consider him a good candidate. This of course will be a lesson for the next applicant I hope, so let's pass that issue, and get focus on the information inside the application based on Massimiliano's one. Hector: 1) Please low down your tone, your replies (yes, not only this mail) to this list seems to me arrogant, and non-constructive, you can express the same idea with different words. 2) And btw off-topic. That though about "not reinveint the wheel" is the most conformist thing that i've heard over the years, thanks God not everybody thinks like that, or we will be using one software for one need instead to have options, flavours and fun of learning in the process of the reinvent, and being a master in the process of improve that old wheel. (yes, nobody is using the first wheel invented, everybody actually uses improved versions, 'reinvented') Finally Timothy, Your application even if you didn't wrote the basic template, looks goods to me, your replies seems you are a motivated person, and you're not new in the OSS world, so you can contribute a lot giving thoughts or experiences that you had. But you have to be more communicative, I personally didn't knew about you neither on IRC, forums, bugtracker, this mailing list or whatsoever, so, if you finally pass you have to know that eventually you will have to communicate with the rest of the community, i hope this won't be a problem for you. That said, good luck with your application, (in bocca al lupo). -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com