On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 08:27 -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 07:09, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:33 -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > > > My mistake, I think I fixed it a little in my follow up, but my main > > > point, is that for many purposes, my REAL name is > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], not Brian Beattie, because that the the true, > > > unique identifier (their are other Brian Beatties living I am sure). > > > > No. For all purposes your real name is Brian Beattie. You might use > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an identifier, but it is not your name. It > > is an email address. Just like a social security number may be an > > identifier, it is not you, nor your name. > > Well what is my "real name" is actually a tricky meta physical problem, > the question, is why do you care?
When did I make claim that I did? > > > What does you government issued ID tell me that is important to > > > gentoo-dev? > > > > Not a damn thing. Have you not been paying any attention? It only > > shows that the person claiming to be Brian Beattie *and* has an ID > > saying so, is indeed Brian Beattie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] once > > everything has been verified. > > Why do you care what name is on my birth certificate? I don't and am increasingly not caring the more you continue with this. However, the law does care. The Gentoo Foundation is a legal entity, at least in the United States. Because of that, we must take certain precautions that would otherwise not be needed. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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