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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Alexander Terekhov ] on Friday 26 January 2007 14:47 \__
>
>> BTW...
>>
>> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> > The FUD about employment contracts is superb. Of course, if you look at
>>> > the likes of IBM, Sun and I'm sure anyone else you care to investigate,
>>> > they have thought about this very hard, and have adjusted their
>>> > employment contracts to take account of this.
>>>
>>> Don't really know about employment contracts, but apart from
>>> contributing to just few GPL'd projects for strategic reasons, it is
>>> no secret that IBM treats [L]GPL'd code like a kind of toxic waste, so
>>> to speak. The general rule is "seek for alternative". The preferred
>>> license for IBM's own open source is the CPL (EPL/IPL).
>
>
> I have been assuming for a while that you're in the field of law...
>
>
If he is, he's not very good. He remains confused, apparently, about
the difference between copyright, patent and trademark.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Now I can finally explain to everyone why I do this. I just got $7 worth
of free stuff for working on Debian !
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