[Info-vax] OT: The New Face of HP

[ChrisQ]

JF Mezei wrote:

> 
> Unless the employer, be it HP, IBM or other, publically brags about
> providing support for the open sourced community, in which case, you
> should expect that when an employee is listed as maintainer for a piece
> of open source software, that he does this as part of the open source
> community with support from his employer.

Agreed and to be fair, big business has provided a lot of financial and 
other support to the os movement. The cost of software development is so 
great now that one could say that open source has been a life saver for 
the industry. For them, it's a low cost development model that has been 
shown to work and produce reliable code, consistently. For a change, 
everyone wins :-).

This case looks a bit off though and might be an indicator of how some 
businesses are finding underhand ways to leverage paid work under the 
cloak of warm fuzzy, "we're all in this for fun" exterior...

Regards,

Chris