Re: [LAU] SOLVED: CENSORING public archives (Was: Problem post)

Am 02.02.2010 um 13:40 schrieb Luke Peterson:

> Wow, this seems like a fantastic idea if your goal is to scare the
> crap out of the commercial manufacturing side of the digital audio
> world, cause hesitation in further participation in the linux/open
> source community, and get an individual contributor to the community
> fired from his job/sued.
>
> Muse makes interesting, helpful products, has a lot of valuable IP
> invested in computer audio production, and as a result of this
> exchange very likely are about to institute a corporate policy
> dictating their employees never contribute any of that knowledge to
> public forums such as this.
>
> Nice work.
>

Although I am totally with you on that the posting should be removed
from the official archive, which has happened by now, I can understand
the furor.

Being p###ed off by and avoiding NDAs is one of the founding myths of
the free software movement:

http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt

You can easily find the famous "printer story" in the text by
searching it for "tym".

It's good to see Michael's problem solved.

- Burkhard

> -----
> Luke Peterson
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Marc-Olivier Barre <marco@email-addr-hidden
> > wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:31:33 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@email-addr-hidden>
> wrote:
> > Marc, this is a top priority matter. Could you please look into t
> before
> > te end of the day?
> >
> > Many thanks!
> >
> > Ico
> >
> > Michael Ost <most@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Marc,
> >>
> >>Can you help me delete a post please? We are under threat of a
> lawsuit
> >>because of it, so I'm eager to get this resolved. Help?
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Michael Ost
> >>
> >>Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> >>> Michael,
> >>>
> >>> I am forwarding this to Marc who is in charge of mailing lists.
> >>>
> >>> Hope this helps!
> >>>
> >>> Marc, please see below.
> >>>
> >>> Best wishes,
> >>>
> >>> Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
> >>> Composition, Music Technology
> >>> Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
> >>> Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
> >>> Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD
> >>> CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy)
> >>> Virginia Tech
> >>> Dept. of Music - 0240
> >>> Blacksburg, VA 24061
> >>> (540) 231-6139
> >>> (540) 231-5034 (fax)
> >>> ico@email-addr-hidden
> >>> http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Michael Ost [mailto:most@email-addr-hidden]
> >>>> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 1:20 PM
> >>>> To: Ivica Ico Bukvic
> >>>> Cc: Chris Halaby
> >>>> Subject: Problem post
> >>>>
> >>>> Ivica,
> >>>>
> >>>> I made a post to linux-audio-user in January 2007 ([linux-audio-
> user]
> >>>> iLok protection on Linux Wed Jan 10 15:22:48 EST 2007) that
> violates
> an
> >>>> NDA that my company has with the copy protection company, Pace
> AP.
> >>>>
> >>>> Would you be able to delete the post for me? I found
> instructions for
> >>>> how to do it with the mailman mailing list program here:
> >>>> http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030681
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for your attention,
> >>>>
> >>>> Michael Ost
> >>>
> >>
>
> Hello all,
>
> Given the nature of this discussion, I am CCing the linux-audio-user
> mailing list since this is about deleting legitimate content from the
> archives because of a company that produces some of those shitty
> software
> locks. I'm not gonna go easy on this.
>
> First of all, let me remind you, and every linux-audio-user member out
> there that the archives *ARE PUBLIC*, and thus what you post here
> will be
> eventually readable by the *WHOLE WORLD*.
>
> Read this again: the archives *ARE PUBLIC*, and thus what you post
> here
> will be eventually readable by the *WHOLE WORLD*
> Once more just to make sure: the archives *ARE PUBLIC*, and thus
> what you
> post here will be eventually readable by the *WHOLE WORLD*
>
> Deleting the post is not going to happen, I am only willing to
> censor the
> one post that poses an issue provided the name of the company is
> mentioned
> on a censor banner inside the post. The least we can do with such a
> case is
> add a little public humiliation to this.
>
> Also I would like to say that this is the one and only time that this
> happens. Next time, the original poster will face the legal
> consequences. I
> hope this is crystal clear to every one reading.
>
> Just to make sure we are talking about the right post, is it this
> one ?
> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2007-January/041742.html
>
> I will not even read a reply that does not include the linux-audio-
> user
> list in CC.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Marc-Olivier Barre
> XMPP ID : marco@email-addr-hidden
> www.MarcOChapeau.org
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