On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 02:39 pm, Mattias Campe wrote:
Richard Dobson wrote: [...] > This is something that needs to go past the lawyersfirst so that they can at least supply some legalese to put on the JEP pageA disavantage of this can be that users want file sharing and they can't wait for all that lawyers stuff. Most of the client developers want their client to be the most used on the whole planet (I think this is a very normal way of thinking :) ).
to indemnify the JSF from any legal repercussions (hopefully passing the
legal burden onto the end user where it should be).
Now, if you take the two together, maybe a lot of client developers will start to build their own, incompatible, (proprietary?) solutions for file sharing. "Incompatible", because there is no support from the JSF...That maybe so that impatient people will just go and create their own anyway, but the legal problems still remain and if the JSF creates and promotes a protocol designed for people setup a file sharing system it could bring the JSF into the firing line, IMO it is a VERY bad idea to rush into a potentially very dangerous territory for the JSF just because people want something now and cant wait a little while to sort this stuff out and in doing so protect the JSF. I have seen this argument quite a lot that people will end up building their own incompatible solution if we dont do it right now, I dont believe that for one second, there might be the odd one but they will be in the minority, I could understand that if I was saying that the JSF should not do it at all, but im not im saying that we should wait a little while for the lawyers or whatever to make sure the JSF is protected against any kind of comeback standardizing this feature could cause.
Richard
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