On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 06:22:47PM -0800, Matthew Schlegel wrote: > On Fri Oct 30 18:05:39 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter rambled into the ether: > > > Can anyone give any recommendations that may help me get a waiver to work on any > > > GPL license software (perhaps it could be constrained to GPL software not in > > > competition to NT5 (group I will be in))? > > > > Well...considering Micro$oft's belief that EVERYTHING is part of > > the OS, they could consider anything as competing with NT. > > > > hmm NetTrash 5...So...when we see it blue screen should we think of you? :> > > > > Well... actually the only thing I'm going to be doing is monitoring a bug > mailing group (kinda like linux-kernel type thing) and forwarding bug reports > to the appropriate developers. I will also be maintaining a database of bug > reports made to the list. Its hard to resist the comment: Bug report forwarding...that sounds like a FULL TIME job...for an entire staff! > > > > > I don't particularly want to try to > > > get them to waive rights to my mud src specifically as that would most likely > > > draw unwanted attention to the mud server and end up resulting in them taking > > > it when they may not have otherwise thought about it. > > > > If you can't get them to give you either a direct waiver fo rthe mud OR > > a general waiver allowing to work on anything NOT related directly to the > > work you are doing... > > > > then the only recourse you have really is to STOP work on > > it the MOMENT you START working for them and not TOUCH it at > > all during that time (hmm real ass covering: pgp sign a tar file > > of its directory tree and send it to someone else to hold) > > > > Then you can prove you didn't work on it. > > Thanks for the idea of sending a PGP signed version off to someone. I'm going > to make a signed tar.gzip of my cvs repository (just the stuff for the mud) > and send it off to a couple people. Also gives me a backup of my CVS tree > which is a good thing anyway :P definitly good :) Then you can PROVE that you wrote it BEFORE the contract. > > > > Hope its all worth it :) who knows...maybe teh section of NT5 you work on > > will actually end up having some level of quality to it... > > that would be a first :) > > > > (I havn't seen quality M$ software since DOS) > > I personally didn't find dos to be all that great either :P NoTechnology was > pretty nice until I discovered a real OS (linux :) Well ok... I have to admit... Until 96, I Used an Apple IIGS. MY first M$ OS was Windows 4.0 (er 95) I kind of like to delude myself into thinking money isn't what allows a company to gain power int he first place and that they had to have started out with something good...gues they don't deserve that much credit... Hmm I only used a Microsoft OS at home for about a year and a half. Now I ONLY use Linux except when im being paid ;) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com> --- <sjc@debian.org>------------ */ "A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top." --James Reston
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