Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933659AbXIBATu (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 20:19:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933564AbXIBATe (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 20:19:34 -0400 Received: from bofh.cns.ualberta.ca ([129.128.11.10]:59131 "EHLO bofh.cns.ualberta.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933511AbXIBATP (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 20:19:15 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:19:13 -0600 From: Bob Beck To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vge Subject: r.kernel.org Message-ID: <20070902001913.GF24887@bofh.cns.ualberta.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1482 Lines: 39 >I urge developers to not bait into this and just leave this alone. >Those involved know what they are doing and have a strong team of >attorneys watching their backs. Any *necessary* discussions are be >done privately. > > Luis What? when we talk about the ethics of cooperating development and sharing code the response is "we have lawyers watching your backs" and "we know what we are doing and have a plan" What is this? a concerted attack by some organization on the BSD projects? Would that be the FSF? or freesoftware.org? What kind of crap is this? that Free Software developers can't respect each others project goals and work together, but instead should beware of organizations with hidden agendas to abscond with their work. What a crock. I urge any developers involved to decide if you really want to work in an environment of this sort of amoral baloney. I think you all should decide if you want to work in an environment where developers can cooperate on a handshake and respect each others differnet goals, or whether discoveries in each camp need to be hidden from each other and fought over by lawyers. You're all being talked to by a bunch of zealots who put zealotry above morals. -Bob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/