Some of us are still reading (I know I'm not the only one), but ADC2 is an area that is too sensitive for "plain engineers" to make comments about on a casual mailing list.
This is the time of the year where it's hard to dedicate much time to mailing lists, as the focus is on finalizing phones for the holiday shopping season. Indeed, as you mentioned, each instance of discussions about patents causes employees of many companies working in the general area of that patent to feel uncomfortable and eventually leave. The case you have in mind was especially bad. JBQ On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:13 AM, String <[email protected]> wrote: > > Re: Where have all the Google employees gone? > > I noticed that they all but stopped participating in Android-Discuss > right after some bonehead posted a link to a patent that JBQ had > SPECIFICALLY asked them not to. The explanation was that it's legally > dangerous for Google employees to participate in a group which > discusses patents, in case they end up infringing on one. So I suspect > we can thank that particular bonehead for removing Google folks from > this group. > > String > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Software Engineer, Android Open-Source Project, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
