Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:36:54 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!! Message-ID: <p0620071fbe32fdcc36d4@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200502111456.56011.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <200502092223.01650.algould@datawok.com> <200502111434.24639.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <1933693940.20050211234413@wanadoo.fr> <200502111456.56011.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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At 2:56 PM -0800 2/11/05, Joshua Tinnin wrote: >On Friday 11 February 2005 02:44 pm, Anthony Atkielski ><atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote: >> Joshua Tinnin writes: > > > Hmmm, let's see, Anthony Atielski, 30 posts on this subject > > > alone, on a tech help list. Makes you wonder what sort of > > > priorities you have. > > >> At the moment, I'm worried about FreeBSD. > >Listen. > >You come in here making vague accusations of legal wrongdoing, >not just once, but TWICE! With no foundation or background, I >might add. You make these accusations with close to zero actual >knowledge of the situations involved. Do you know what that's >called? That's called a cartooney threat. Oh come on now. Given the recent cartoony lawsuit by SCO against IBM over Linux, I can understand his concern. *He* is not threatening anyone, he's just asking a few worthwhile questions. And the answer is that the Project is well aware that it needs to pay attention to these legal issues. First off, we already won the earlier AT&T lawsuit against FreeBSD, and second off we did notice the SCO lawsuit. We are checking in with lawyers more than we used to, and deciding just how far we need to go wrt these issues. Even if we could easily win any cartoony lawsuit, the lawsuit itself takes money and time-resources that we would rather not lose. Certainly the AT&T lawsuit in the 1990's caused a major slowdown in progress for FreeBSD while it was being fought. Speaking as a programmer, it is very very annoying that we have to spend time on these issues, but the fact remains that we *DO* have to pay attention to them. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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