From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 26 10:35:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F4037BE93 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pe1rxq@amsat.org) Received: from amsat.org ([212.83.82.91]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 99c8f334c649856e3f2cdadc4054e412) with ESMTP id <20000426173508.PPAU22628.relay02@amsat.org>; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:35:08 +0200 Message-ID: <390728D0.C8FD89B1@amsat.org> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:35:12 +0200 From: Jeroen Vreeken X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Cc: Alexander Langer , Alan Cox , Brett Glass , linux-usb@suse.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: [linux-usb] Anti-NDA petition References: <4.3.1.2.20000425140001.00bf1100@localhost> <20000426111313.D1245@cichlids.cichlids.com> <00042607463707.00803@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org dreamwvr wrote: > > hi, > first as i have already mentioned IMHO extortive means are about as > productive overall it sounds like as those that were used by m$ that > caused the DOJ case. do you really think dragging co kicking and > screaming is productive to open source. extortion only leads to > resentment and count me out. co should choose what they release > at their terms.. did anyone force anyone to release code GPL. i think > not! bully tactics are used b.t.w. in the m$ camp as well but lets move > above that huh? > Best Regards, > dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com > ps-if there is enough > demand for a product and > any co can see a > business case they will > release it. you need to > communicate to them on > that level not the level > of a bully IMHO. First of all: I am not extorsing anyone. The people making the decision here approved this action (although I do think they did not know it would get such a big respons). Secondly: The action is not to gpl (or any os license) the philips drivers, it would be nice but is not my intention. I am doing this to get the specs for communicating with the camera free. As for your ps, with this petition I try to prove that there is a business case, they just don't see it yet. You have to take in concideration that the whole open source concept is allien to them. I am just trying to get them on the right track, better late then never. Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message