Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:07:05 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: rob spellberg <emailrob@emailrob.com> Subject: was this really necessary? [ was Re: The FreeBSD Jive Copyright ] Message-ID: <20030222210705.GA2091@papagena.rockefeller.edu> In-Reply-To: <3E564549.2DCD3E1F@emailrob.com>
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Without getting into debates about hate speech v/s the First Amendment (personally I saw nothing offensive about the posts, though I'm no GPL basher), I think Rob made a valid point in the last line of his first mail: > i could be wrong, but i don't think this enhances your CV. Most likely nobody's going to prosecute you for this particular mailing list posting, but these days employers do frequently google prospective employees. Worse, people google potential dates, friends google friends, etc. It's unlikely you'll come across a posting like the one that sparked this thread if you search for "copyright" "licensing" etc as Rob fears (Google's page-rank is pretty good), but it's pretty likely you'll come across it if you search for "Stacy Olivas". I don't mean Stacy's act of posting was wrong -- some people may be comfortable with making such posts and having them quoted back at them later, and some may not be comfortable with that, it's entirely up to the individual poster (up to a point, obviously hate speech isn't allowed on lists like this). But, in general and without reference to Stacy, people who may worry about others scanning their "online record" do need to watch what they write here... - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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