Thread: SIO2 Interactive spamming votes to get his/her applications to Extras
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2010-02-18 , 13:01
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
Many of the posts here are based on personal opinions and personal preference, sometimes without regard to the long term interest of the platform itself.
How exactly are the long term interests of the platform served by having poor quality software fraudulently rammed into the repositories?

Originally Posted by Freemantle View Post
is there seriously no way that this whole issue could have been handled privately?
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I'm not suggesting what SI02 did was the right way to go about things, but he should have got a private slap down rather than this public one. Surely we need to encourage people to work on the N900, not push them away.
Not at any price. He did absolutely the wrong thing and deliberately abused the system. In a community it's important to deal with things in the open so people can make their own decisions about things. Given that SIO2 has shown a willingness to exploit a security/process bug for financial gain I'm not going to let any of his code near my systems, and I wouldn't suggest anyone else did either. Why should people be kept in the dark about such behaviour?

As a general point I'd be all for relegating non-Free software to Ovi - it's just not possible to do the sorts of proper QA that I'd expect from a community repo without proper access to the source.
 

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