[Mono-list] Dot_GNU PR Folks on Slashdot

[Adam Treat]

On Sunday 24 November 2002 03:24 pm, Juli Mallett wrote:
> * De: Joe Mozelesky <jmozelesky@netcarrier.com> [ Data: 2002-11-24 ]
...
> > I don't think the licensing part is really an issue, I think the issue
> > is that Ximian cannot dictate a non-compete arrangement to a
> > non-employee who is an open source contributor.  They do not 'own' the
> > entire project in its entirety.  They have no right to tell a
> > contributor they cannot be involved because they contribute to another
> > project.
... 
> With Mono-Hackers, I imagine it's something like "Ximian is looking out
> for us, and providing all these services, and they thought the Mono-Hackers
> would like to know that Zed & Zot Enterprises wants to embed Mono into
> Foobars in the next major revision, as part of a partnership with Ximian,
> and we're going to be funneling development skills back and forth, and
> we like you guys, and know you work hard for Mono, and thought you'd like
> to know that it's going to such cool use, and if you want to help them
> out, we'd encourage you to."  So if there's some concern from Ximian, I
> can easily imagine that the Mono-Hackers list membership may go down,
> if it seems like someone may be passing on that sort of information, or
> maybe helping DotGNU or trying to get Z&Z to use DotGNU instead.

And that is absolutely fine.  If Miguel does not wish to share confidential 
information with me then that is entirely his prerogative.  I don't quite 
understand why, but it is his company (well not really, but you know what I 
mean ;) and he can do whatever he wants with such information.

The problem stems from the nature of the mono-hackers list and the 
consequences of limiting participation on technical discussions of Mono to 
those with no avowed interest in, or support of, similar projects.  Once 
again, I don't mind Ximian limiting access to confidential information.  I am 
concerned about limiting access to technical discussions because of an 
expressed interest in a competing project.

Cheers,

Adam