From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:36:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200BF16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:36:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp800.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp800.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5B6543D1D for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:36:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (jtinnin@pacbell.net@64.173.27.163 with login) by smtp800.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2005 22:36:36 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:36:36 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <805E7F3C-7C77-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <1065300005.20050211231617@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1065300005.20050211231617@wanadoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502111436.36427.krinklyfig@spymac.com> cc: Anthony Atkielski Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:36:37 -0000 On Friday 11 February 2005 02:16 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > > many in no way means a majority. many is more than a few, where a > > few is a handful (3-5 or so). There are probably more than a > > handful who do it as more than a hobby. A lot of good people do it > > on their own time as well, and I salute that. But a lot of people > > like Yahoo and others (Apple probably) submit stuff that ends up in > > FreeBSD and they pay their people to do so. Lots of features, like > > jails as I understand it, started off by someone getting paid to > > implement stuff. > > I hope people are not being as careless as you imply. Being paid to > write code as an employee means relinguishing copyright in the code > to one's employer. If people are actually doing this for FreeBSD, > then some of the code in FreeBSD is owned by their employers, which > can become a legal nightmare and stop the project dead in its tracks > overnight. Aren't there any _lawyers_ working on this project? I don't think you understand the history of FreeBSD. Many people who work at Yahoo! are committers, and their employer not only knows about this but encourages it. This is the second cartooney threat you've shot across the bow. To what end? - jt