Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:53:42 -0700 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! Message-ID: <C6C08C06-7C7F-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <676533660.20050211235140@wanadoo.fr> References: <p06200708be315f521112@[128.113.24.47]> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEFLFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <649200329.20050211081852@wanadoo.fr> <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com> <D73008E2-7C71-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <389541039.20050211231100@wanadoo.fr> <45B84E47-7C7B-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <494362973.20050211233012@wanadoo.fr> <05C10068-7C7E-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <676533660.20050211235140@wanadoo.fr>
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On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > >> You ask a dumb question, get such an answer. > > Be sure to tell the CIOs that. That'll do wonders for adoption of > FreeBSD. CIOs don't hang out in public mailing lists asking such questions Chad > >> You make assumptions that just because someone is paying someone to >> work on FreeBSD that no one has thought of the copyright implications. > > Because I know that it happens regularly. Geeks usually know nothing > about copyright and think that they are above copyright law. > >> The people running the FreeBSD project are smarter than that. > > Then they are also smarter than the people running Microsoft, IBM, > Adobe, Apple, Sun, and many other multibillion-dollar companies, all of > which have regular problems with copyright and patent law. The > difference is that these large companies can afford to defend > themselves > in court (and even then they sometimes lose). > >> And I am not your errand-boy. If you are seriously worried about >> this, >> then you need to make the investment necessary to clear your mind on >> the issue. Asking other people to do so is arrogant. > > I'm trying to keep people from shooting themselves in the feet. Why is > there always such hostility towards this? > > -- > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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