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Sep 08, 2009 15:47

Anarcho-hackers/techies (JHR, Simon, anyone else?)...

... what's your opinion on Crabgrass?

waving the black flag, bobbins

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quercus September 8 2009, 16:23:29 UTC
The pitch for Crabgrass is that because the politics of your content is different, you need different applications to handle it. This is bogus ( ... )

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davecar September 8 2009, 20:51:58 UTC
I can't quite imagine why you would want to install this on a fluffy Linux desktop of a newbie user - surely as this would be something that would go on a server either in a datacentre or at least in the spare room of someone who has half a clue about how to set up a network server anyway. Nice Software Libre assassination though.

I can also see that certain types of groups would not want to use social networking sites which are dedicated to mining their users data for teh evil capitalists to exploit, or that there are taking direct action on something and probably don't want the filth being able to see their events diary

The software might such. I dunno. I just haven't seen a knee jerk as fast as that since the doctor last tested my reflexes.

Actually I have just cloned the Ggit repository and it does look like a totally server oriented package - RoR, Mongrel, rake, capitrano, MySQL - this certainly isn't some desktop application so I'm even more confused by your, er, rant.

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tails_redux September 8 2009, 21:00:03 UTC
Indeed, can't make much sense of this mysen.

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quercus September 8 2009, 21:12:09 UTC
WTF is "Software libre" anyway, when they mean GPL? Hardly the most open choice of licence.

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hirez September 9 2009, 10:29:07 UTC
If it works and people like it, then it's a happy thing.

Although I do think that 'democratic membership management' is a remarkably bad idea.

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djvext September 17 2009, 21:47:09 UTC
+1 for Freedom
-1 for Framework

:)

Yeah, this is antagonistic and non-informative but that is what happens when I read posts from a few weeks ago, after a few wines and after a day of Java indulgence.

In semi-seriousness: it is a good step towards a common goal. There are many other options. And this is good. If the infrastructure is based on open standards (no, just the 'real' ones) it will run on any compliant platform (not only those from the "Long Spoon of Redmond", wtf is that all about?).
This is as it has been, and will be - part of the reason this 'net is here at all - for good or bad.

Choice is good! and other cliches... that just happen to hold true.

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