Re: [ANN] HP memo forecasts MS patent attacks on free software

2004-07-21 Thread Brian Behlendorf
OpenOffice, too. Batten down the hatches! Brian On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Antonio Gallardo wrote: An interest article about the posible attack using patents. An interesting quote: They [MS] are specifically upset about Samba, Apache and Sendmail. Here is the link:

Re: Python anybody?

2004-07-21 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
I've submit: http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-95 Let's see what transpires. regards Adam - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-21 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:20 PM -0400 Brian McCallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that if 3 ASF'ers want to discuss a topic via email, and think a mailing list would help, there should be a mechanism to simply have it created, bang. Just my 2 cents =) Mailing lists without PMC

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-21 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
From: Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@apache.org Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:03 PM Subject: Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?) --On Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:20 PM -0400 Brian McCallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that if 3 ASF'ers want to

Re: Inexpensive Lists

2004-07-21 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:20 PM -0400 Brian McCallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that if 3 ASF'ers want to discuss a topic via email, and think a mailing list would help, there should be a mechanism to simply have it created, bang. Just my 2 cents =)

Re: [ANN] HP memo forecasts MS patent attacks on free software

2004-07-21 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 03:22 PM 7/21/2004, Antonio Gallardo wrote: While your are right about the licenses cocktail. I think the comment is OT. The main point to post the article to the list, was let the rest of us know we are on target. That is all. Perhaps 2 years from now we will know what is prepared for us. If

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-21 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:54 PM -0600 Adam R. B. Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I might've missed a better place to post, I don't think so. I thought about it for a while, and this was the best I came up with. So if you know of one, then maybe I'm simply clueless, not lazy. Otherwise,

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-21 Thread Henri Yandell
Do you have the same feelings for [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems to me that members@ is akin to a community-dev list, while community@ is akin to a community-users list. Any reason to keep members@ should exist for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree that MS Patent stuff is boring and unnecessary on a

Re: Inexpensive Lists

2004-07-21 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 4:10 PM -0600 Adam R. B. Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you keep assuming it is for chit chat? If it were [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it was clear (community imposed/whatever) to be about Java @ ASF, wouldn't that make sense? Aren't there issues (i.e. supporting

Re: Inexpensive Lists

2004-07-21 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 05:33 PM 7/21/2004, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 4:10 PM -0600 Adam R. B. Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you keep assuming it is for chit chat? If it were [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it was clear (community imposed/whatever) to be about Java @ ASF, wouldn't that make

Re: Inexpensive Lists

2004-07-21 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
I guess it's that I don't follow the argument that topics not specifically tied to the ASF should be given a home within the ASF. -- justin Tie them to ASF. I don't want comp.lang.python, I want 'python as it relates to ASF'. regards Adam

Re: Inexpensive Lists

2004-07-21 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:40 PM -0500 William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think one thing folks are asking for is an [EMAIL PROTECTED], one where idle questions and chitchat about cool solutions and code for our servers and sites would be shared. I wouldn't see an issue with