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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 03:46:29PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> this kind of sudden change in Larry's written opinion within 24 hours is
> that makes this whole issue dangerous. 

What change?

> this is why i'd rather want to have an iron-clad legal way out first, and
> not have to rely on nonbinding promises done on public lists. I'm sure
> Larry understands this position, he has exactly the same position when
> trying to protect his business against hordes of freebies.

We spend a lot of time thinking about this from your point of view.  There
is a rule around here that we can't impose any rule that we wouldn't be 
willing to live with if the situations were reversed.  

I'm composing a reply to the rest of the thread, stand by.
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