Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Brett Glass
All: It's good to see corporate support of BSD, but at the same time I have mixed feelings about certain corporations -- Verisign among them -- hosting BSD-related conferences or becoming involved in the development of BSD-based operating systems. Why? Because Verisign, based in Reston,

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Michael Powell
Brett Glass wrote: All: It's good to see corporate support of BSD, but at the same time I have mixed feelings about certain corporations -- Verisign among them -- hosting BSD-related conferences or becoming involved in the development of BSD-based operating systems. Why? Because Verisign,

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Robert Simmons
Any contribution from a company like Verisign needs to be carefully scrutinized. I also don't think it wise to allow them to take a leadership role of any type. On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Brett Glass wrote: All: It's good to see corporate

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Good points in Brett Michael's posts, but for brevity not copied. Best avoid having code written reviewed just in USA as it would get less trust globaly, NSA is a known alien mega spy, USA even coerces non USA citizens outside USA, eg

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 20:00 -0400, Robert Simmons wrote: Any contribution from a company like Verisign needs to be carefully scrutinized. No it has to be turned down flat. Huge companies from the USA at all events are untrustworthy. The only trustworthy companies are such companies: I have