Re: Dell vs. GPL

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 15:43:52 EST


On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:28:15 PDT, Andre Hedrick said:
> Try leaving the ivory towers of academics for the real world.
> I did and it was a rude slap in the face. Most academics don't get the
> real world of business, they can teach it but generally can not do it.
> If they could do it, they would not be in academics. Except for the few
> cases of people who just get off on teaching and that is wonderful.
> Maybe you are different, and do not fit under the brush. However your
> comments about NDA's leaves me little faith in your knowledge base.

Well.. I prefer to think of it as working at a large corporate data center with
a 10,000 square foot server room that provides central computing services for a
$400M/year organization that just happens to be in the business sector of
"higher education".

And does your NDA *REALLY* say "Thou shalt not go to the cops if
you find out about illegal activity"?



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