> Dennis Clarke writes:
>> The problem here is that insanity is running the show. Sort of like the
>> RIAA
>> going after some little lady and her three kids for downloading a song.
>> Gee,
>> yeah, that will fix the problem.
>
> What exactly will it take to make it clear that the legal rules here
> are *NOT* of Sun's making?
Place a notice on the homepage of OpenSolaris.org that tells the
new user what the situation is.
> They're rules imposed by the IPR
> restrictions on things that Sun bought long ago. We don't get to
> renegotiate them now. Heck, if we could, we'd have done it long
> before ever launching OpenSolaris. (And, in many cases, did do that
> for things you don't even notice. The remaining bits are the
> refactory ones.)
>
> At this point, the right answer is elimination and replacement of the
> encumbered bits, not email. Complaining about lawyers on this list
> will just not do any good, either for the code or for sender of the
> message.
Maybe you need to be more clear with that last sentence.
I think you are giving a lecture to the wrong person.
Here is my perspective :
(0) the SXCE/SXDE ISO's are inside a Sun server somewhere.
I could get them easily straight into my jumpstart server.
Life is good.
(1) SDLC makes some change without talking with the end user.
(2) The ability to do those rapid updates, easily, .. goes away.
(3) Talk about it on a maillist.
(4) Get told that you can't fix the problem and you are not allowed
to anyways. By the way, there are encumbered bits in there and
we are jammed into this situation. Yes it says "community"
release but .. so sorry.
(5) Get a lecture from some guy.
Well, let me look at the maillists. I have not written much. I once did
during the pilot and then in the first year. I keep getting into the same
situation every time. Meanwhile Blastwave pushed out open source software
to 45,000 unique users last month and about 19,000 thus far this month.
Maybe I'll just wander off and focus on that side of things. Everytime I
write something here I get a "perception issue" notice.
Dennis
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