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.

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George Osvald
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