From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John S. Denker" Subject: Re: netlink tester program Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:41:38 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3EDC18F2.6090505@monmouth.com> References: <3EDC0915.1080109@monmouth.com> <20030602.193853.112598236.davem@redhat.com> <3EDC1418.6080808@monmouth.com> <20030602.202233.39180859.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030602.202233.39180859.davem@redhat.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 06/02/2003 11:22 PM, David S. Miller wrote: > > Are legal rights only available to people who understand > the law and have a legal degree? > > No, this is why we hire lawyers if we choose not to study > law ourselves. If we are taking the legal system as our model of openness, then open-source software has come to a sorry pass indeed. ========= It is also important to distinguish what's best for *you* and what's best for the project. Maybe *you* don't want to be responsible for doing all the documentation. I can understand that. But the project as a whole would be better off it it had better documentation. Perhaps you could recruit other folks to help with this. But disdaining the whole concept isn't a good way to start the recruiting.