At 2:56 PM -0800 2/11/05, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
On Friday 11 February 2005 02:44 pm, Anthony Atkielski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joshua Tinnin writes:
> > Hmmm, let's see, Anthony Atielski, 30 posts on this subject
> > alone, on a tech help list. Makes you wonder what sort of
> > priorities you have.
>
At the moment, I'm worried about FreeBSD.
Listen.
You come in here making vague accusations of legal wrongdoing,
not just once, but TWICE! With no foundation or background, I
might add. You make these accusations with close to zero actual
knowledge of the situations involved. Do you know what that's
called? That's called a cartooney threat.
Oh come on now. Given the recent cartoony lawsuit by SCO against
IBM over Linux, I can understand his concern. *He* is not
threatening anyone, he's just asking a few worthwhile questions.
And the answer is that the Project is well aware that it needs
to pay attention to these legal issues. First off, we already
won the earlier AT&T lawsuit against FreeBSD, and second off
we did notice the SCO lawsuit. We are checking in with lawyers
more than we used to, and deciding just how far we need to go
wrt these issues.
Even if we could easily win any cartoony lawsuit, the lawsuit
itself takes money and time-resources that we would rather not
lose. Certainly the AT&T lawsuit in the 1990's caused a major
slowdown in progress for FreeBSD while it was being fought.
Speaking as a programmer, it is very very annoying that we have
to spend time on these issues, but the fact remains that we *DO*
have to pay attention to them.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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