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Re: Adoption - NOT. Cooperation/assistance - yes.
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Ilan Aisic wrote:
> However, I'd also like to point out that companies like Sela
> never do anything for free. They should have had a commercial
> interest in suggesting this suponsorship.
>
> If we find out what what are their motives and how are they
> going to advertise this adoption/cooperation, than we can
> judge if we can live with it or not perhaps with an E-vote.
There are very few things that can actually be gained from swallowing
Linux-il. However, Sela _CAN_ benefit from the more technically competent
members' free services (Eh, Merkin, right, nudge nudge?), less
competition, using the group as a pool of workers (Sela teaches Un*x, etc).
I would be VERY careful with Sela, any of the regional ISP's, and indeed,
with any and all companies that want to adopt people. Adopt away - as
long as a contract is signed saying something - Erez, I suspect you're
the most capable in the legal side of matter. As the situation stands,
a contract cannot be signed since Linux-il has no corporate existence.
I think this should continue, with support for shows, etc, coming from
Digital, IBM and other, _large_ companies, NOT from companies that can
benefit directly from Linux-il's demise or from internal bickering, etc.
And, if anyone knows about bickering, it is I, eh Merkin, nudge nudge,
say no MORE!
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Marc A. Volovic (marc@cs.huji.ac.il)
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