From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu,  4 May 2000 09:52:20 +0000
From: Douglas Fraser dwfraser@lucent.com
Subject: [9fans] re: license terms?
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Tried that once for an old defunct product that would have been
a general interest item for embedded programming hobbyists.

You can try to run a crusade, or you can do the job that they
pay you to do. One action yields good performance reviews, the
other doesn't. Care to guess which is which?

I don't know about anybody else on this newsgroup, but I have a
mortgage to pay and a wife and two kids that depend on me for
an income. It isn't really that hard a priority call to make.

Doug

rob pike wrote:
>
> > That's a bit of a cop out. Unless lawyers are running the company, managment
> > makes those decisions, lawyers just execute.
>
> Lucent is a big company and the desires of a few researchers to give company
> software away do not pull much weight.

Helium comes to mind, and not much of it! ;-)

>
> -rob