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Re: gEDA-dev: Newbie developer guidelines.
When reading this the first word that comes to my mind is chilling. That
the discussion of technology issues revolving around published ideas
stops these ideas from being discussed. I repeat chilling.
Steve Meier
DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Is this mailinglist is from now on free as in beer, but not free as
>> in speech?
>>
>
> This mailing list is, and always has been, a private non-government
> forum. Therefor, the usual "Free speech!" defense DOES NOT APPLY to
> things you say in this forum; the law just doesn't apply here. That
> doesn't mean we discourage open communications, it does mean that
> there are some things that we are going to ask you to not discuss
> here. One obvious example is off-topic posts, like politics or
> sewing. One not-so-obvious example is patents. Discussing a patent
> on an open forum changes the legal liability of ANYONE who reads this
> forum, and doing that without legal advice is dangerous and costly.
>
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