From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:10:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:10:03 -0400 Received: from 216-60-128-137.ati.utexas.edu ([216.60.128.137]:2185 "HELO tsunami.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:09:52 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@webofficenow.com To: Alan Cox , mbac@nyct.net (Michael Bacarella) Subject: Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself. Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 07:08:42 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062207084202.00692@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 21 June 2001 18:49, Alan Cox wrote: > > Except that Apple keeps the old code open. Probably because > > they'll gain nothing from it, and at best, they can appeal to > > the techies. > > A company that seems to write 'you shall not work on open source projects > in your spare time' into its employment contracts is not what I would call > friendly or want to work for. Im sure its only a small step to 'employees > shall not snowboard' 'employees shall not go skiing' - all of course argued > for the same reason as being essential to the company interest This IS the company that had the "I work 90 hours all the time" club with t-shirts and everything back under Jobs in the early 80's. And far more recently, where at least one employee got in trouble for "thinking different' with a parody site involving famous serial killers. The "Proprietary frosting" model is fine for leaf-node projects like games. But if the new layer is infrastructure other people are expected to build on top of, then what you're really saying is "I want slaves". Rob