Re: Corel Lawsuit

1999-11-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 11:48:30AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > > They are clueless, but are you serious about a lawsuit? > > Perhaps not _this_ time, but I am throwing up my hands because I have no way > to keep them from doing something much more clueless next time and then a suit > may indeed b

Re: is this free?

1999-11-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 10:52:07AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 08:32:28AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 11:56:57AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > > You are free to mix the code with other code, though. All DFSG free > On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at

Re: Corel Lawsuit

1999-11-27 Thread Gavriel State
I'm not sure whether I should be posting this message. Spokesperson isn't my real job (I'm an engineer), but the people whose real job it is may not be able to respond on debian.devel in time to avert the weekend flamefest I'm dreading. Though perhaps part of the problem has been that people h

Re: Corel Lawsuit

1999-11-27 Thread Bruce Perens
Hi Gavriel, From: Gavriel State <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm not sure whether I should be posting this message. I acknowledge that you guys are contributing work back to free software. We appreciate that. It's your legal department that has people tearing their hair. I worked hard to sort out the f

Re[2]: Corel Lawsuit (fwd)

1999-11-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then imagine the potential shareholder lawsuits against Corel for not > excercising due-diligence in preventing the losses incurred by the delayed > release, wasted CD's and other materials, and civil suits by copyright > holders because they failed to

Re: Apology to Corel

1999-11-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Bruce Perens wrote: > I think I'd better apologize to Corel. I'm frustrated because I've tried > to smooth problems with them out twice before, but I should not have suggested Erm, it seems to me that at least the 2nd instance, went rather well - why are you frustrated? Ja

Re: Apology to Corel

1999-11-27 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Erm, it seems to me that at least the 2nd instance, went rather well - why > are you frustrated? Because they are taking so long to get a clue. Thanks Bruce

Re: Corel Lawsuit

1999-11-27 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 12:12:16AM -0500, Gavriel State wrote: > I'm not sure whether I should be posting this message. Spokesperson isn't > my real job (I'm an engineer), but the people whose real job it is may not > be able to respond on debian.devel in time to avert the weekend flamefest > I