From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 13 10:56:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4893637B405 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:56:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f5DHuF795752; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:56:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:56:15 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Subject: Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010613103509Z.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: <20010613135440.J95631-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today Jordan Hubbard wrote: > From: Bill Vermillion > Subject: Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:45:46 -0400 > > > We just need to hide all the code from the lawyers. > > Why? They wouldn't understand it anyway. What we really need to do > is stop HIRING them. :) The only reason we have lawyers is to protect us from other lawyers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message