Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
>
>> You ask a dumb question, get such an answer.
>
> Be sure to tell the CIOs that.  That'll do wonders for adoption of
> FreeBSD.

CIOs don't hang out in public mailing lists asking such questions

Chad


>
>> You make assumptions that just because someone is paying someone to
>> work on FreeBSD that no one has thought of the copyright implications.
>
> Because I know that it happens regularly.  Geeks usually know nothing
> about copyright and think that they are above copyright law.
>
>> The people running the FreeBSD project are smarter than that.
>
> Then they are also smarter than the people running Microsoft, IBM,
> Adobe, Apple, Sun, and many other multibillion-dollar companies, all of
> which have regular problems with copyright and patent law.  The
> difference is that these large companies can afford to defend 
> themselves
> in court (and even then they sometimes lose).
>
>> And I am not your errand-boy.  If you are seriously worried about 
>> this,
>> then you need to  make the investment necessary to clear your mind on
>> the issue.  Asking other people to do so is arrogant.
>
> I'm trying to keep people from shooting themselves in the feet.  Why is
> there always such hostility towards this?
>
> -- 
> Anthony
>
>
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