Larry writes... > If you look at the IBM effort, as far as I know, the IBM employees that > work on Linux don't also work on their proprietary closed source > software (Barry, PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong), for the same reasons.
No correction needed. It's called "contamination", and we, too, are very careful to avoid it, and we, too, will not allow people to work on anything related to the GPL without approval and isolation. It's a pity, but there it is. (It's not limited to GPL, by the way -- we take similar care about, say, having someone familiar with the Oracle source code coming and working on DB2. Intellectual Property law is still very murky, and most of us would rather be cautious than open to litigation or loss of IP.) Barry -- Barry Leiba, Internet Messaging Technology ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/leiba
