questionary - who developes FS/OSS

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Thu Jul 26 18:06:01 UTC 2001


On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:23:33PM +0200, schilling at fokus.gmd.de wrote:
> >From wk at gnupg.org Thu Jul 26 19:06:14 2001
> >On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 18:18:08 +0200 (MEST), schilling  said:
> 
> >> -	The most important one: GMD !=3D Fraunhofer - Full Stop!
> >What about http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/lab-23.07.01-004/ :

> >[Fusion of GMD and Fraunhofer finally settled.  Fraunhofer has
> > entirely taken over the former GMD]
> 
> 1)	Don't trust Press releases that are set up by enemies (FhG in this case)
> 	I don't want to go into details, but from a legal point of view
> 	GMD is not jet FhG!

The webpages of GMD have different information:
	http://www.gmd.de/de/presse-archiv/pressekonferenz.html
	| Nun sind auch alle juristischen Schritte zur Integration
	| der GMD in die Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft vollzogen.

	| erwarb die Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft am 11. Juli sämtliche
	| Anteile an der Kommanditgesellschaft. Damit ist die rechtliche
	| Verschmelzung abgeschlossen.

[Rough translation: All legal steps of the integration of GMD into
Frauenhofer are completed. ... Frauenhofer bought all shares of
the coporation at 11.7.2001. The legal merger is therefore complete.]

The press release is dates 17.7.2001.
On GMD/Fokus and the BerliOS pages there are no other information.

> 2)	This is a discussion triggered by a WIDI poll some days ago.
> 	If you like to have a fair discussion, you should rather check the
> 	legal state for this date.

> >> Just a note: GMD is a non-profit organisation (approved by the German tax=
> > office)
> 
> >There is no GMD anymore.
> 
> Right! At the moment we call "GMB Informationstechnik e.V. & Co. KG."
> Nevertheless, we remain a non-profit organisation and we are not part of
> Fraunhofer!
> 
> The change to the new name has become valid with 20.7.2001 with a publishing
> in "Bonner Generalanzeiger" (Page 20). As I am replying to a mail from
> you send at 16.7.2001, you see, that your statements are wrong.

Okay, the Berlios is now (since 6 days) not part of Frauenhofer anymore
according to your information.
This seems to be a good step.

Anyway, how should we or others know?

> >>> Nobody in the (German) community trusts BERLIOS, probably due to a gut
> >>> feelings.
> 
> >At least all the folks I know and that are quite some.
> 
> So I give you the advice to find better friends. People who make statements
> like this are no help for the movement.

Thanks for downgrading all people that Werner 
(Vice-President of the FSFE Chapter Germany, in the board of GUUG, 
main architect of GnuPG) knows in Germany which are involved in Free Software.
As I am also one of these persons I can reassure you that
a statements like the one above can be perceived as "unfair accusations".

> >J=F6rg, I didn't want to publish your name because we had a private
> >conversation.  

> I believe we should rather
> not start to fight on personal affairs.

I agree.

There are several other reasons why is distrust of BerliOS
in the Free Software community in Germany.
We (the FSFE) did not create it.  We merely point it out to you.
Free Software developers usually have a sixth sense for some
of the mistakes BerliOS is making.

	Bernhard

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