> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Eric, this is a really tough policy. It is tough to enforce and tough to
>> tell people, good people, that no, we can not have you building software
>> that will be running in the servers at Lockheed Martin, NASA and MIT. The
>> issue of liability has been a very tough one but it was needed.
>
> Why do you assume just because someone has a job their employer is in any
> way willing to accept liability for their open source actions?
Its a good way to verify that they are real people with a real identity.
> I don't
> know of any other "open community" that has similar restrictions, and in
> the open source development communities, students are often found among
> the best contributors to the community.
And we have a pile. Have you seen the latest? The OpenSolaris distro from
Martin Bochnig?
http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0048/index.html
He is a student by the way.
>
>> Have there been exceptions? Absolutely.
>
> Given your blog stories about looking for a job, aren't you the leading
> example that requiring someone to be gainfully employed to contribute
> to blastwave doesn't make much sense?
Hmmm .. well now you are getting personal. That's okay.
At the time that Blastwave was formed I had more than sufficient finances
and ownership in a company. It was a joy to start and to foster. Despite
my tough times over the last year I still do everything that I can to keep
everything running and growing. With a little contract work lately I was
able to beef up the NFS server to 200GB and to get us onto fibre bandwidth
all hosted. Its been super tough but well worth it I think. Sometimes
people need to make sacrifices to do a "good thing". Thus I spend a lot of
time in a basement these days but its a lot of fun.
http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/index.html
So no one questioned my identity or intentions.
I don't think you would either.
Dennis
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