Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:23:17 -0700 (PDT) | From | Justin Guyett <> | Subject | Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox |
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On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:50:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I'm not a file sustem hacker, nor since I work for one vendor the > > appropriate owner for larg chunks of code in some people's eyes. I > > suspect the FSF is a much much better asignee for the code itself > > I assume the legal threats that Jeff has experience will follow the > code? Surely before anyone wishes to adopt such a thing they should > get legal advice about the situation? > > It would be shame to let potentially useful code be left to die for > fear of bully-tactics if their claims are unfounded.
presuming they are unfounded, given the history of attacks by Novell, perhaps the best move would be to turn it over to a company like compaq or ibm given a written contract that they will keep it open source. Novell can't be that stupid.
justin
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