Re: Linux stifles innovation...

["Henning P . Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:50:17AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:

[...]
> If you do not like that rule, LEAVE!  
[...]
> if I catch you abusing the privildge of use of my work, I will
> pursue you in terms defined as actionable.
[...]
> And you do not have the knowledge or authority to comment on this subject
> where "I do".
[...]

Bla, bla, bla. The usual Andre Hedrick rant about how superior you're
to all other, threats and the cited hostility of "open source advocats" 
about everyone not their opinion.

You may be a really talented software developer with a deep under-
standing of the ATA subsystem. That does not give you the right to
insult all other people that are not your opinion.

> When you begin to learn that OpenSource is the way and that some of us
> will work with companies on an as needed bases.  At this point if you came

Andre, I do this since quite a few years. I can live quote good from
it in my small vertical market and I love using free software for the
flexibility that I get. But this does not mean, that I will never ever
touch again a program where I have no source. I do this all the time
without and ideological prejudice.

> Once Linux decides to adopt and support AV Streams, it will be in the best
> interrest of TiVO to work with me so that they do not have to work against
> me. 

I see the fine point of you using the word "me". Not "the Linux community".

	Regards
		Henning

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