On Monday 14 May 2007, John Andersen wrote: > On Sunday 13 May 2007, George Osvald wrote: > > > Funny you mention this... 'cause I was just doing some on-line > > > research into the case... and found among other things (Hans' trial has > > > been delayed until May 29th due to Du Bois availability) that the > > > Namesys company is being offered for sale to help defray Hans' legal > > > expenses... Du Bois claims they'll take offers from all "vultures". > > > I sent a message to the dev team and got a response from one of > > > the team who says they have no communications from Hans. Du Bois is > > > probably the main contact point for making an offer for Namesys. This > > > looks like a good opportunity for somebody... ever wanted to run a file > > > system company? > > > > > > I wonder if Novell has given this any thought lately? > > > > If that's true then I don't understand why anyone would pay any money for > > the company. ReiserFS being open source anone can just take over the > > project and not pay a dime. > > That is the prevailing view in the Microsoft world. Unusual to find it > expressed here in Linux-Land.
It is not un usual at all. I have seen many forks of many open source projects over the years. Some of them succeeded some disappeared. Point is it has been done many times before. -- Regards, George Osvald OK Studio ® http://www.okstudio.com.au Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
