[plug] Something is awfully wrong with this scenario. Jeremy?

[W.Kenworthy]

Simon, this is starting to look like a troll.  There have been
explanations by all parties including the "official representatives of
Torvalds" who are designated to look after this matter.

As far as nobody telling you this has happened, it seems that a number
of people on this list are aware of this and I have had emails from
Linux Australia (I think, didnt take much notice as this really isnt a
big thing except for the /. loony brigade who have suddenly woken up)
notifying members this was being done on "our" behalf.

I dont have a problem with this except that it has become is necessary
to prevent someone like Microsoft, SCO or others producing a branded
Linux designed to upset our applecarts.  Jeremy is an experienced lawyer
who I have met and spoken with at a couple of seminars and I find him is
very IT knowledgeable.  He has hit the news a few times, and the T3
victory was very satisfying - who else in the legal fraternity has shown
themselves on "our" side?  It hard to reconcile the picture being
painted on /. with what I have seen of him. 

Make some time to bone up on the subject.  Join some industry
associations for the "inside news" instead of listening to scuttlebutt.
Interesting to read maybe, but not the truth as I see it.

BillK 

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:42 +0800, Mark Dixon wrote:
> "I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local 
> affairs that's your own lookout."  -- Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the 
> Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council
> 
> simon wrote:
> > Craig Ringer (craig at postnewspapers.com.au) wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>The whole situation was evidently handled less than fantastically, but I
> >>still don't understand why all this fuss is being made *now*. What about
> >>two weeks ago, when all this happened?
> > 
> > 
> > Dont you find it strange that most of us are only finding out about this now?
> > 
> > I myself dont have a great deal of time to troll news sites.
> > 
> > I would have thought something with the potential to affect the whole
> > community would have been made a lot more public - a post to the major
> > usergroup lists perhaps?
> 
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