On Apr 7, 6:49pm ras@e-gerbil.net wrote:
*sigh* Yes yes everyone loves a good "large stupid company screws the little guy by sticking their small/free service into a commercial product" story, but unfortunately none of these solutions are very pragmatic. If I hosted an NTP server and dlink put it in a default query list of a default firmware, and then I asked them to pay my Equinix bill for the next 5 years, I would fully expect them to provide a nice little ascii diagram of
That isn't what he asked. He explained the problem to them, asked them to rectify it, and their response was "here, talk to our lawyers". Which is merely a discrete way of saying "f*** off, we're bigger". Infer at will, please, if you will. I know phk personally (give or take a little, we're from the same country, and have both participated vigorously in the same UNIX user group [yes, there have been such entities]); for those who are unaware of his credentials, let me cut and paste the following from the FreeBSD GBDE manual page: HISTORY This software was developed for the FreeBSD Project by Poul-Henning Kamp and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (``CBOSS''), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. AUTHORS Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> So for the benefit of any xenophobes here, rest assured, he's cleared for a NASA-powered Mars-walk when the time comes. As for the issue at hand, I can only support phk, it's an open and shut case. Of course, anybody and everybody is free to argue that if one walks through Central Park (or whatever your local Mugger's Delight is called), one is merely fighting a losing battle. At the end of the day, however, it becomes a question about what behaviour we deem acceptable, whether or not fighting back seems fruitful. There's an old Scandinavian proverb (quite possibly of foreign origin) which simply says ""Those who keep quiet, agree". Do you agree? -- Per