From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:53:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB6A16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:53:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD1043D31 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:53:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.43) id 1CzjfS-000Hbs-Cl for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:53:42 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <676533660.20050211235140@wanadoo.fr> References: <649200329.20050211081852@wanadoo.fr> <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com> <389541039.20050211231100@wanadoo.fr> <45B84E47-7C7B-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <494362973.20050211233012@wanadoo.fr> <05C10068-7C7E-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <676533660.20050211235140@wanadoo.fr> Message-Id: From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:53:42 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on hobbiton.shire.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,PLING_PLING autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1+cvs (built Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:44:05 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hobbiton.shire.net) Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:53:43 -0000 On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > >> You ask a dumb question, get such an answer. > > Be sure to tell the CIOs that. That'll do wonders for adoption of > FreeBSD. CIOs don't hang out in public mailing lists asking such questions Chad > >> You make assumptions that just because someone is paying someone to >> work on FreeBSD that no one has thought of the copyright implications. > > Because I know that it happens regularly. Geeks usually know nothing > about copyright and think that they are above copyright law. > >> The people running the FreeBSD project are smarter than that. > > Then they are also smarter than the people running Microsoft, IBM, > Adobe, Apple, Sun, and many other multibillion-dollar companies, all of > which have regular problems with copyright and patent law. The > difference is that these large companies can afford to defend > themselves > in court (and even then they sometimes lose). > >> And I am not your errand-boy. If you are seriously worried about >> this, >> then you need to make the investment necessary to clear your mind on >> the issue. Asking other people to do so is arrogant. > > I'm trying to keep people from shooting themselves in the feet. Why is > there always such hostility towards this? > > -- > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"