linux-kernel - Re: Wasting our Freedom

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Date:	Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:16:33 +0000
From:	Jacob Meuser <jakemsr@....lonestar.org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	"Can E. Acar" <can.acar@...-g.com.tr>, misc@...nbsd.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	Eben Moglen <moglen@...twarefreedom.org>,
	Lawrence Lessig <lessig_from_web@...ox.com>,
	"Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@...twarefreedom.org>,
	Matt Norwood <norwood@...twarefreedom.org>
Subject: Re: Wasting our Freedom

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 05:12:08PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

> reimplement them.  Why don't you go and try asking NetApp for sources
> to WAFL, and claim that they have "moral" duty to give the code back,
> and see how quickly you get laughed out of the office?

which is _exactly_ what you guys are doing.

so the linux community is morally equivilent to a corporation?

that's what it sounds like you are all legally satisfied with.

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