Sorry if I'm alone with no clue, but what is the project all about ? ----- "Leslie S Satenstein" <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Hi Mlugers and friends > > We started a project around 1 June with a government ministry to > provide Linux development for several deliverables. > > Originally we thought the contract would be signed by 1 July , and > thus we started to look for talented people such as individuals who > expertise is well known to all our fellow MLUGers. > > Then, as you would view it on a popular British TV show, the > sub-minister came along and changed the underlying Linux distribution > on us, and that caused a rewrite of the deliverables and the > contracts. We lost the month of July due to delays and rework. > > Now we are faced with other delays as the selected distribution has > non-free codecs. We are waiting for legal clarification as we cannot > legally distribute patented software that is not our own. > > What in normal businesses takes 3-4 weeks to hammer out a contract, is > taking 3-4 months or longer, and this delay is frustrating to us and I > am sure, to those involved and waiting for us to respond with good > news. > > Please accept our apologies for the delays. We are not certain at all > when or if the project will go forward. If not going forward, we lost > 3 man-months of work. > > On the positive side, we also learned a lot from the experience. > > > > > > Your talent is not the issue, the bottleneck is the resolving of the > legal aspects of distributing Linux code with non-free codecs. > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > Regards > > Leslie > > Mr. Leslie Satenstein > > > mailto:[email protected] > mailto [email protected] > www.itbms.biz > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
