The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 17:34:29 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 10:23 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> What law or contract is broken when a company provides a link to another
> >> company's site?  Particularly, when that other company would want to
> >> have that link.
> > 
> > 2600 decision.
> >  
> >> Or have I completely misunderstood and need to do some reading?  Got
> >> some sites?
> > 
> > Read up on 'contributory infringement'
> > 
> > and remember US so called "free speech" is strictly and narrowly defined
> > to be political speech. 
> 
> _AND_ keep in mind that this has next-to-nothing to do with Nvidia or 
> other vendor-provided drivers, commercial software (even free - in the 
> original sense - stuff like VMware, flash, realplayer), or how to 
> install Sun Java, yet they are all equally shunned subjects in official 
> channels.  That is their right, of course, but it means that fedora 
> users need to be prepared to find information and resources elsewhere.

So there should be an easy way to do this, right?

poc




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