On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 00:03 +0000, gl wrote: > Bjorn, what about the point that Rockbox is most likely 'real software, > written by real people with many fake names'? If you cannot enforce the > accuracy of a given name, then why try?
It's a form of social trust (or "due diligence", if you like legal terms). Let's try another one: "If you can't guarantee that all contributed code is 100% patent-free and not plagiarized, why bother trying?" At some point you have to trust that contributors will not do things they shouldn't. bk
