From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: Jason Molenda , overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: suggested change to sources.redhat.com page Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000 Message-id: <20001101143457.A16320@redhat.com> References: <3A0055F8.1902A1A5@redhat.com> <20001101103628.A6983@shell17.ba.best.com> <20001101141013.A18757@disaster.jaj.com> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg01211.html On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:10:13PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: >> My two cents: Of course it's inappropriate, that's why I wrote >> it. Y'all can decide if you want to change it (I'm not going to >> mind one way or the other), but it isn't accidental - I really hate >> corporate cover-your-ass written-in-legalese privacy statements, >> when it all comes down to "We're keeping standard apache log files, >> we don't give it to anyone else". > >Hear, hear. I personally know three people who have read the >sources.redhat page and become interested in the projects specifically >because it was lighthearted, and therefore obviously /not/ an "official" >RH company-related site. They're interested in libre software, but not >interested in corporate-managed collaboration, and that's the impression >that an officious-sounding legalese disclaimer on the sources.redhat page >would make. I agree. Strongly. cgf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: Jason Molenda , overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: suggested change to sources.redhat.com page Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 11:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20001101143457.A16320@redhat.com> References: <3A0055F8.1902A1A5@redhat.com> <20001101103628.A6983@shell17.ba.best.com> <20001101141013.A18757@disaster.jaj.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00081.html Message-ID: <20001101113500.6C9uNLLDM_MflSluN-xbN9chQij_JpLAB907FSwpp40@z> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:10:13PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: >> My two cents: Of course it's inappropriate, that's why I wrote >> it. Y'all can decide if you want to change it (I'm not going to >> mind one way or the other), but it isn't accidental - I really hate >> corporate cover-your-ass written-in-legalese privacy statements, >> when it all comes down to "We're keeping standard apache log files, >> we don't give it to anyone else". > >Hear, hear. I personally know three people who have read the >sources.redhat page and become interested in the projects specifically >because it was lighthearted, and therefore obviously /not/ an "official" >RH company-related site. They're interested in libre software, but not >interested in corporate-managed collaboration, and that's the impression >that an officious-sounding legalese disclaimer on the sources.redhat page >would make. I agree. Strongly. cgf