On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Marco Nelissen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > Second, more importantly, many people who read and participate in this > >> > group and other official Android discussion groups work for companies > >> > where company policy is to avoid reading or learning about any > >> > patent-related subject, and to avoid forums and sites where such > >> > discussions routinely happen. It'd be unfortunate if those people were > >> > forced to stay away from the official groups because of patterns of > >> > patent-related discussions. Let's try to be self-moderating in that > >> > area before lawyers need to get involved (as even the most friendly > >> > lawyers can't make their involvement pleasant in that case). > >> > > >> > >> I call BULLSHIT. > >> No one is forcing these guys to use their business e-mails for reading > >> these groups. > > > > It doesn't matter what email address is used. It's the person behind the > > email address that matters. > > > > True, but I don't see what can stop me from setting up a > [email protected] account, accessing it on https://gmail.com with an > HTTP tunneling I've setup at home, and using it from work (or simply > browsing the newsgroup via VNC at home). Sure you can do that. My point is not that we can't try to hide our activities or identities, but that we *should not* hide them. We should not masquerade as someone else in order to participate in conversations that are not appropriate for us as Google employees to participate in. > I also call bullshit because these people could, for example, google > for "parent", accidentally make a typo and type "patent" (r and t are > close to each other) and eventually see some patent-related stuff, > which wasn't supposed to be seen. That is completely different from signing up using a fake identity. In any case, since Elan suing Apple has nothing to do with the SDK, this discussion remains off-topic for this group. Please take it somewhere else. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
