Re: Evolution copyright assignment: Storm in a teacup

["C. Scott Ananian" <cscott cscott net>]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Murray Cumming wrote:
> Rui wrote:
> > Several years ago, a company even contributed to Linux (Calders) and
> > look where they are now!
> I don't think that is a situation that is relevant to this discussion.

Rui's point was simply that arguments of the form, "Perhaps you're right,
but company X is friendly so we don't have to worry about that," may be
dangerously misguided.  That point is extremely relevant, and I hope the
(friendly) Novell/Ximian guys don't take any offense by it.

We should avoid making arguments of this form.
 --scott

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