On Monday, March 4, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Jesse Noller wrote:
> > > On Monday, March 4, 2013 at 10:24 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > > > I applaud the foundation for getting an electronic signature method in > > place. > > > > However, I have to say that to my mind echosign is nothing more than > > "authentication theater", and I wonder if it is going to make us look > > more than a bit clueless to the tech community. I'm surprised that > > a lawyer would consider a "signature" generated from typed text to be > > useful for anything. If you are are going to accept the typed signature, > > just accept the typed signature. > > > > I was asked to sign a legal document I cared about that way once and I > > refused. > > > > At least there's a way to upload a real signature. > > > > --David > You mean like OpenStack who also uses this? And Opscode, Eucalyptus, and > others? See also: Google's: https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual So, multiple corporations who pay their lawyers a *lot* more than we pay ours, backing large open source projects have moved to authentication theater. I'm pretty happy we have the option now, since not offering electronic CLAs has been a complaint for the past 5+ years. _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
