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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 17:45:07 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: Justin Guyett <justin@soze.net>
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On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:23:17PM -0700, Justin Guyett wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:50:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not a file sustem hacker, nor since I work for one vendor the
> > > appropriate owner for larg chunks of code in some people's eyes. I
> > > suspect the FSF is a much much better asignee for the code itself
> >
> > I assume the legal threats that Jeff has experience will follow the
> > code? Surely before anyone wishes to adopt such a thing they should
> > get legal advice about the situation?
> >
> > It would be shame to let potentially useful code be left to die for
> > fear of bully-tactics if their claims are unfounded.
> 
> presuming they are unfounded, given the history of attacks by Novell,
> perhaps the best move would be to turn it over to a company like compaq or
> ibm given a written contract that they will keep it open source.  



> Novell can't be that stupid.

Don't count on it.  I had completed a fully 64-bit OS in 1997 for IA64, 
four years before everyone else.  It's been sitting in an archive 
somewhere inside of Novell -- unused for no other reason than I 
wrote it.  I am waiting to see who would want it.  It's open to 
any takers.  Alan may be in a conflict of interest with Red Hat 
since Novell is an investor in them, so this I understand.  I'll 
wait and see who's interested.  I would not be surprised if 
someone from Novell asks to take it over.   

Jeff


> 
> 
> justin