[wplug] McBride's Open Letter to the OpenSource community

[Bob Schmertz]

John Harrold incurred the wrath of Bob on Sep 8, by saying

>Sometime in September Vanco, Donald assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
>| Some of the best reading yet on the code controversy.....
>| http://www.linuxworld.com/story/34007_p.htm
>| <http://www.linuxworld.com/story/34007_p.htm> 
>
>interesting how they quote people:
>
[snip first part of quote from Uncle Darl, non-ascii quotes asciiized]
>     and it shouldn't be there. Mr Perens stated that there is "an
>     error in the Linux developer's process" which allowed Unix System 
>     V code that "didn't belong in Linux" to end up in the Linux kernel
>
[snip]
> 
> when we look at bruce's words in context:
> 
[snip]
>     In this case, there was an error in the Linux developer's process (at
>     SGI), and we lucked out that it wasn't worse. It turns out that we
>     have a legal right to use the code in question, but it doesn't belong
>     in Linux and has been removed.

Man, Darl gives a new meaning to the word chutzpah!

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Cheers,
Bob Schmertz