From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 3 19:29:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA02778 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 19:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from srv.net (snake.srv.net [199.104.81.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA02769 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 19:29:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home ([208.141.171.158]) by srv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA12659; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 20:29:09 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 20:28:34 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Gary Kendall , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? In-Reply-To: <4443.878608603@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > What corporations? You have a list of all parties who might > conceivably have a trademark infringement problem with us? Are you > willing to do the work of tracking down and contacting all of these > people? > > If not, I'm still going to go for "remove the games" as the only > *effective* solution since pie-in-the-sky suggestions like yours > avail us naught. Is the core of your argement that you might have to remove additional games in the future and so let's just get it all over with now? Sick of those pesky lawyers and their cease and desist letters? Sometimes the historical anachronisms come in handy, such as rot13 (which seems to have vanished already). Jordan, I think that you handle release engineering for the best free unix distribution in the world, and a distribution CD is a lot more than just the kernel. Since your services are at no cost (well, maybe Walnut Creek throws a few morsels your way), I can't criticize you for wanting to reduce your workload. But aren't you at least a little concerned that your actions might drive "Snob Art Genre" to Linux? Charles Mott