Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:19:46 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Message-ID: <v04220806b4f7c42920e3@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000316175938.04124880@localhost> References: < <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003152023030.6838-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003152023030.6838-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> <4.2.2.20000316175938.04124880@localhost>
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At 6:01 PM -0700 2000/3/16, Brett Glass wrote: > In this case, Walnut Creek shall have a permanent edge over any > other company that might want to use the name FreeBSD, because at > least two people who work for it will always be able to preview > any competitive product long before shipment. > > Not an acceptable policy. There are companies all around the world that have to deal with coopetition issues, and the internal "Chinese Walls" that they have to erect to make sure that the part that has the insider access doesn't unduly influence the rest of the business or give them inappropriate access to information, etc.... This happens all the time in the financial world, where companies do *daily* turnover of hundreds of billions of dollars. Your little pissant complaints about these sorts of problems in another context don't amount to a hill of beans compared to this. Get over it. All we have to do is make sure that the FreeBSD Core Team (and the FreeBSD Foundation) fulfill their fiduciary obligations, and use whatever methods are necessary to ensure that the early access to this kind of information does not give an unfair advantage to any of the involved companies. I'm sure they're already very well aware of these facts, and your loudly moaning and bitching about this in public isn't going to teach them anything they don't already know far better than you ever could. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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