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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Othello : Legal issuesRe: Othello : Legal issues
From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:33:05 +0100 "some of the most innovative work to come along in a LONG time" John, those are BIG words - I am flattered that my code is rewarded with such eloquence. Thank You :D It is moments like this that make ALL of it 100% worth the effort. <feeling quite chuffed with himself>, BlueChip At 02:03 09/06/04, you wrote: >On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 00:23:03 +0200, Björn Stenberg <bjorn_at_haxx.se> wrote: > > >Neon John wrote: > >> This is control-freakism out of control. Totally out of control. > > > >Far from it. Many projects require all contributors to sign release > papers and fax copies of passports, or even do physical IRL identity > checks (such as in Debian). > >OK, I take that back. You're not quite totally out of control. THAT is out >of control control-freakism. It's also the perfect prescription to cause >something good to melt into an inbred, more and more irrelevant product. Oh >wait, that pretty much describes Debian, eh? > > > > >All we are doing is rejecting anonymous contributions. If that makes us > control freaks in your eyes, so be it. > >There's an old saying that goes "those with the least authority wield it the >most vigorously." Perfect description of this situation. > >Tell me how you're rejecting anonymous contributions. Tell me how you know >that I'm not BlueChip? Or he I? You don't. All you're doing is excluding >from Rockbox some of the most innovative work to come along in a LONG time >just because you can't have your way. Maybe you can't understand our >(American) rebellious nature (assuming that you're sure we're even in America) >given the highly structured nature of your society but you ought to try. > >I've spent a bit of my career working as an expert in legal matters. I've >been around lawyers enough to understand how they think. Believe what you >will, but your little exercise in "protection" would be breached in the first >5 minutes of deposition. In fact, you'd find yourself worse off (the due >diligence issue) than if you did nothing. > >It is incredibly coincidental that this would come up now. I've been thinking >for some time that it is time for "neon John" and "John De Armond" to >disappear from the net. Too many hassles and too much spam from being widely >known on the net. When these names disappear and I come back up with an >alias, absolutely no one will know what the connection is. If and when I >contribute code to Rockbox, that will include you. You'll have a text string >to fit into that rigid little mental slot but it will be meaningless. > >The tragic thing is, you're forcing a fork in the product for no valid reason >at all. I have dreaded seeing Rockbox fork, as most freeware eventually does. >I could not have imagined it would be over something as silly and meaningless >as this. > >John > >--- >John De Armond >johngdDONTYOUDARE_at_bellsouth.net >http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/o/johngd/ >Cleveland, Occupied TN >_______________________________________________ >http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-06-09 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |