On Sunday 24 November 2002 03:24 pm, Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: Joe Mozelesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-11-24 ] ... > > I don't think the licensing part is really an issue, I think the issue > > is that Ximian cannot dictate a non-compete arrangement to a > > non-employee who is an open source contributor. They do not 'own' the > > entire project in its entirety. They have no right to tell a > > contributor they cannot be involved because they contribute to another > > project. ... > With Mono-Hackers, I imagine it's something like "Ximian is looking out > for us, and providing all these services, and they thought the Mono-Hackers > would like to know that Zed & Zot Enterprises wants to embed Mono into > Foobars in the next major revision, as part of a partnership with Ximian, > and we're going to be funneling development skills back and forth, and > we like you guys, and know you work hard for Mono, and thought you'd like > to know that it's going to such cool use, and if you want to help them > out, we'd encourage you to." So if there's some concern from Ximian, I > can easily imagine that the Mono-Hackers list membership may go down, > if it seems like someone may be passing on that sort of information, or > maybe helping DotGNU or trying to get Z&Z to use DotGNU instead.
And that is absolutely fine. If Miguel does not wish to share confidential information with me then that is entirely his prerogative. I don't quite understand why, but it is his company (well not really, but you know what I mean ;) and he can do whatever he wants with such information. The problem stems from the nature of the mono-hackers list and the consequences of limiting participation on technical discussions of Mono to those with no avowed interest in, or support of, similar projects. Once again, I don't mind Ximian limiting access to confidential information. I am concerned about limiting access to technical discussions because of an expressed interest in a competing project. Cheers, Adam _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
