Dear Andre Hedrick,
I wish to apologise for any untoward behaviour that I may have shown towards you, I have have been zealous, sometimes ignorant, in my approach to a situation with you/others and NVidia.
I have neglected to show respect for you in your efforts towards the Linux community, you have spent money, time and effort in dealing with the Linux community, me and many, many others.
You often have spent money wisely on our cause, but recieved only ridicule and ruin in return.
After discussion with my Legal representatives, we have decided that use of GPL'd code solely made by a company/person(s) (of a partnership nature, under British law) in their own proprietary modules is acceptable, as long as code of a substantial copyrightable nature, to which the company does not have a right to use, is not used, we define substantial as "device/hardware accessing routines, that are not created by programmers on a day to day basis".
Further to this, I can guarantee that at this time DM TECH. does not wish to take legal action against you/your company(s).
My Company's board of directors has unfortunately decided, that at this time, DM TECH. does not have the necessary motive for taking legal action against NVidia, However if you/anyone believes their copyrighted GPL'd code has been stolen/used improperly by NVidia, DM TECH. will provide you with legal representatives free of charge, to prosecute/investigate your charge.
I hope this ends our feud, I hope you continue your work.
May I also take my time to congratulate John Bradford on his bug reporting program.
It is also my decision to reimplace the conexant winmodem chipset "total GPL" development project, which I hope shall finish beta testing in a weeks time, along with Supra SST drivers which will have the worlds first open source and GPL'd V.92 stack.
Thanks to those BETA testers.
Happy Birthday, to anyone who's Birthday it is :-).
D. McEwan. Joint Leader, DM TECH.
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Hey Dean!
Not a problem, I forgot all about it.
If this is in part for the "eudoramail.com" 550 REJECT, I was getting spam
from "eudoramail.com" so I blanket killed the domain from my mailer.
I think I owe an apology to you and the list also for not maintaining
civility and going to the straight kill to action. If we (me included)
did not learn from mistakes, then there would be issues. I have no hard
feelings towards you or your company, it is all cool ;-)
It took you less time than me to learn this lesson, and everyone
(including Linus) has forgiven me for my jerkself in the past. I am sure
everyone will forgive you too, as I have. Hey it is only software and
money, I just had an angioplasty less than 24 hours ago. The important
things are now REAL clear to me in life.
Getting upset will only get shaved like a sheep (cardiogram sticky pads),
stuck like a pig (blood work), and blown up like a balloon (angioplasty).
Then all people think of you as a BOHA, Bag Of Hot Air, and hope you float
away.
Dean, just mellow and go with it and try to do the right thing. There are
way to many people doing the wrong thing.
Cheers and Happy Keyboarding!
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
PS this is the real "Andre Hedrick" and not a clone :-P
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Dean McEwan wrote:
> Dear Andre Hedrick,
> I wish to apologise for any untoward behaviour that I may have shown towards you, I have have been zealous, sometimes ignorant, in my approach to a situation with you/others and NVidia.
>
> I have neglected to show respect for you in your efforts towards the Linux community, you have spent money, time and effort in dealing with the Linux community, me and many, many others.
> You often have spent money wisely on our cause, but recieved only ridicule and ruin in return.
>
> After discussion with my Legal representatives, we have decided that use of GPL'd code solely made by a company/person(s) (of a partnership nature, under British law) in their own proprietary modules is acceptable, as long as code of a substantial copyrightable nature, to which the company does not have a right to use, is not used, we define substantial as "device/hardware accessing routines, that are not created by programmers on a day to day basis".
>
> Further to this, I can guarantee that at this time DM TECH. does not wish to take legal action against you/your company(s).
>
> My Company's board of directors has unfortunately decided, that at this time, DM TECH. does not have the necessary motive for taking legal action against NVidia, However if you/anyone believes their copyrighted GPL'd code has been stolen/used improperly by NVidia, DM TECH. will provide you with legal representatives free of charge, to prosecute/investigate your charge.
>
> I hope this ends our feud, I hope you continue your work.
>
> May I also take my time to congratulate John Bradford on his bug reporting program.
>
> It is also my decision to reimplace the conexant winmodem chipset "total GPL" development project, which I hope shall finish beta testing in a weeks time, along with Supra SST drivers which will have the worlds first open source and GPL'd V.92 stack.
>
> Thanks to those BETA testers.
>
> Happy Birthday, to anyone who's Birthday it is :-).
> D. McEwan. Joint Leader, DM TECH.
> ---
> The following Email to you is official memoranda, while on this occasion, the contents of this
> are Open and Free (However transport fees of this email are your resposibility), we give no
> warrantee for this information, as it is transfered via a insecure medium. Thankyou, DM. TECH.
>
> The following is NOT given in this email,
> NO WARRANTEE for incorrectness. NO LIABILITY in ANY case, unless otherwise stated under
> British law.
>
>
>
> Need a new email address that people can remember
> Check out the new EudoraMail at
> http://www.eudoramail.com
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