Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:01:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: allenc@verinet.com (Allen Campbell) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This is stupid Message-ID: <200003171601.JAA16790@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <38D1F624.2C97055A@verinet.com> from "Allen Campbell" at Mar 17, 2000 09:08:52 AM
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> Cruddy or not, the current install/config software persists because > nothing better has ever emerged. Not in half a decade (sysinstall.h 1.1 > Apr 27, 1995.) Thanks Jordan, it's a fine bit of work, making FreeBSD > accessible to hundreds of thousands despite ample `code free' criticism. I carefully qualified my statement in the context of a non-tech-head trying to do an install so as to not denigrate Jordans work. A new installer might emerge, if there were money in it for someone to do the work. It seems to me that the only way it can be moved forward at this point is to pay someone to do the unpleasent work, and the only way that someone will pay for this is if they can recoup their investment. It might be reasonable for the foundation to require a two year maximum trust in order to use the trademark, i.e. you can use the trademark on a derivative work that replaces the installer if you place the code in trust, and within two years (or less) of first release, the code becomes the property of the foundation. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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