-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Martin Pool wrote: > > (I'm a Canonical employee but this is my personal opinion.) > > This team was previously much smaller, I believe, and treated as being > under the kind of non-disclosure where you would normally want people > signing under their real name. Now the beta is rather more open and > more about opting in for new features, so perhaps it's time to > reassess that policy. > > -- > Martin I believe I understand. However, I believe a non-disclosure policy is against the ethics of free software. NDA's are a major characteristic of non-free/proprietary software. And that is exactly what people like Richard Stallman are against. As Scott K said, "This kind of arbitrary, irrelevant requirement is quick typical in corporate proprietary development efforts. I think the mistake people make sometimes with Launchpad is to believe it's anything else." Either Launchpad should revise this policy or it should not appear to be "anything else" than proprietary software and proprietary-like development. As Martin Pool said, the Launchbad testers has become more open, but I believe that the use of pseudonyms which are specific ideas should be acceptable. I see a lot of attempted clarification, but no one has clarified whether the use of pseudonyms, specifically when they establish an identity, are acceptable. An example as I stated previously: someone uses a pseudonym (looks like an ordinary name) throughout the Internet, web, and free software projects. The "fake name" is mentioned everywhere that person is involved or has made a contribution. The person's legal name is not mentioned at all on the web, at least not in any public area. In this sense, the pseudonym is more useful than the real name, and should be perfectly acceptable. The pseudonym is more of a person's real name on the Internet than that person's legal name. In fact, if such a case exists, the use of the pseudonym should be recommended over the person's legal name, which is irrelevant, unless one wants to get in legal matters, which is not free software development. Thanks for understanding. Cyrus Jones -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHwy+Igmu+rEIQLtwRAnbgAJ0Q0IdtET9gByg5+3zb8Y7MI8TUOACgkrBu DwjvRSaLiqODCfTdyIvKEoE= =aT/u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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