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Sun and IBM

Posted Apr 3, 2006 9:52 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Mixing responsibilities by Shanep
Parent article: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD (NewsForge)

I am not trying to direct anger towards you, by the way.
Same here. Cold expression of facts can easily be regarded as aggressivity on the net. That's why smileys were invented :)
I assume when you say one sided flamefest, you are refering to flames coming from me?
Actually, I meant from you to IBM.
I have merely tried to put forward reason and evidence.
I have seen no evidence actually, just your subjective impressions. A link or two would be nice.
I don't feel bad if Theo acts "unethically" towards Sun, because Sun's users choose to be customers of an unethical company.
Back to square one. See, this is not a very professional attitude. (And yeah, Sun may not have been professional in this instance, but this is where one's professionality should show.) Sorry if I have misunderstood the situation, but from the outside it looks like that.


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Sun and IBM

Posted Apr 3, 2006 12:41 UTC (Mon) by Shanep (guest, #36879) [Link]

I have seen no evidence actually, just your subjective impressions.

The evidence I'm refering to are the parts of the OpenSSH licence which disclaim warranties. I don't feel the terms of the licence leave much room for subjectivity.

A link or two would be nice.

The mail from Theo, regarding IBM's expectation for OpenSSH to fix problems for one of IBM's customers for which they have a multi-million dollar contract with.

The details of the OpenSSH licence.

Shame on IBM

Posted Apr 3, 2006 13:09 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Pretty damning. Thanks for the information, IBM should indeed be ashamed.

Shame on IBM

Posted Apr 4, 2006 1:30 UTC (Tue) by Shanep (guest, #36879) [Link]

I should have linked to that long ago, sorry about that.

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