On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:45:13PM -0800, Eliah Kagan wrote: > On 6/14/06, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I blame neither Mr. Cohen nor the lawyers. It's the decision makers at > >the company who have decided this policy, which is a policy change from > >years ago. Nobody else at the company is to blame. That's how > >responsibility works. > > No, it's not. > > If you do something that is morally reprehensible, it is morally > reprehensible whether or not you are doing it because you were ordered > to do it. For Mr. Cohen to tell us lies or inexcusably misinformed > statements reflects negatively on him personally, because that is > something that no one ought to do.
So? If it weren't Mr. Cohen, if would be someone else from Hifn. From *my* point of view as a user of OpenBSD their reasons and moral standing don't matter because they won't open the specs on their hardware. If they did open the specs, then there might be other reasons for me not to do business with them. As it stands there's already one show stopper. That's enough. Look, it's pretty obvious from early exchanges in this thread that these issues have been discussed by the principal parties over a fairly long period of time. How many brilliant insights have been added by this thread? More important, has this thread opened up Hifn's specs? Has this discussion accomplished anything at all? -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
