On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:48:10 -0400
Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sure, it's a perfect coincidence that certain ideas have been
> regenerated by mr.Kenyon AFTER an ubuntu marketing team member
> proposed them. I also know for a fact that he DOES use our ideas, as
> he has asked other members of this team to use the ideas that they
> just happened to have a license on.
>
In this case it probably is just a coincidence - the idea of collecting
and publishing success stories is not a new things and is something
that the community has been doing for a while. That it might be a good
idea to have a better process for that is not a huge leap of
inspiration.
> in fact, I and certain other members of the team who are aware of
> this are very upset and are talking of either withholding ideas or
> putting them under a creative commons license to prevent things such
> as this from happening again.
>
Why? Someone else coming to the same conclusions as you about what
needs to be done is a Good Thing(TM). It gives you the opportunity to
say "That's what I'm already working on, welcome aboard. Lets get
together and figure out how to collaborate." Thus your project gets
bigger and better.
Aside: you can't put ideas like this under a CC license since ideas
aren't covered by copyright.
> I am all about sharing my ideas, but I'm not about having them
> stolen. All I want is for the proper names to be applied where they
> are applicable, Mr.Kenyon will know what names I am talking about.
>
Your idea isn't being stolen. Someone else just agreed that it was a
good idea. He may or may not have been aware of you having had the idea
before, but all that was required for you to get credit was to send a
reply saying you were already working on it, and that any and all help
would be appreciated.
There is clearly some history here that I am not aware of, but please
let it go and lets see if we can't work together.
Aside: please don't allude to something terrible having happened in the
past if you're not going to say what it was. "X will know what I am
talking about" just looks childish and is annoying to all those people
on the list who aren't X and don't know what you are talking about.
Robert
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Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com
The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering
iron, a manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.
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