I agree with you, Pokey, and I would expect the hackers list to be used for technical discussion and filtering out the non-technical off topic stuff, but I do not agree that it makes sense to force a contributor into a non-compete agreement type of situation. To me that goes against the open source spirit of community collaboration.
I do think there should be some clarification posted and I suspect that will happen in the near future. DotGNU/Mono/whoever-else-decides-to-make-an-open-source-CLR/framework should co-exist as 'friends', a KDE/GNOME type situation would be most unfortunate. I'm sure all will come to light and the world will be well again :-) Well anyway, I've got a ton of Gtk+ and GNOME documentation to pore over and leaves to rake... Happy Coding! :-) PS Did I just write an email to a penguin? Next thing I know Rupert the monkey is going to come out of the woods to help me de-leaf my yard! :-P -----Original Message----- From: Pokey the Penguin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:43 AM To: Joe Mozelesky Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Mono and the community On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 15:47, Joe Mozelesky wrote: > I'm not sure I understand. I thought Mono was an 'open source' > community project, that happened to have a corporate sponsor. Why would > there be any confidential information? Shouldn't everything be > disclosed to the community? There are several Open Source/Free Software projects with private mailing lists and IRC channels including the Linux kernel, the Debian project and many of the larger GNOME sub-projects. Mono isn't an exception. Mostly they're used to discuss 'public relations' with individual users which would be impolite or encourage rumours if posted on a public list. The fact that there are several external contributors on these lists acts as a check that nothing too nefarious will be discussed on them. There is no conspiracy! :-) -- Pokey the Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
