From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [OT] Shameless troll ;o) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:45:16 -0800 Message-ID: <20060104034515.GA30049@kroah.com> References: <20060103145639.GC20353@thunk.org> <43BAD395.5090801@zytor.com> <20060103222802.GA29610@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Theodore Ts'o , "H. Peter Anvin" , walt , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 04 04:46:00 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Etzau-0003Fr-6g for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 04:45:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965181AbWADDpp (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:45:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965183AbWADDpp (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:45:45 -0500 Received: from c-24-22-115-24.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([24.22.115.24]:44520 "EHLO aria.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965181AbWADDpo (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:45:44 -0500 Received: from echidna.kroah.org ([192.168.0.10] helo=localhost) by aria.kroah.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.54) id 1Etzag-0001lA-Lt; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:45:34 -0800 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:55:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > I'm not actually aware of any bad experience IBM had with Mr. Lyons, > > and I'm not aware of any "don't talk to Dan Lyons" warning from > > management, other than the standard rules requesting IBM engineers not > > talk with _any_ journalist or analyst without first clearing things > > with press or analyst relations --- but that's pretty standard for any > > large corporation. If you ask IBM PR, I'm sure they will be able to give you the reasons they don't allow IBM employees to talk to Dan. > Yes. And when trying to clear it with IBM legal, Greg KH was told not to > talk to Dan Lyons. Yeah, and because I wasn't allowed to talk to him, he wrote a funny (well, funny to me at least) article about how IBM was muzzling their Linux developers. It was quite accurate, and I've not had any problems in dealing with him since I left IBM (probably due to my current employer allowing me to talk to him...) thanks, greg k-h