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080716 Josh Saddler wrote: |
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> Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> I'm not sure whether anyone among Gentoo officials cares about this, |
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>> but IBM has an article |
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>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-awk1.html |
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>> whose byline is very misleading & may infringe on Gentoo's IP. |
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>> I have submitted a comment to IBM via their form. |
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> Uh, this article really *was* written by drobbins some time ago. |
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> It's okay. It's all perfectly legal; in fact, check out |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/ |
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Yes, it looks as if someone at IBM simply copied it from there, |
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where it is indeed marked "updated". |
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> I and some other folks GuideXMLified the original developerWorks articles |
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> and republished them on gentoo.org with permission, eg the URL you posted: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/l-awk1.xml |
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Yes, that's it. |
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> No need for the alarm, folks. Simmahdownah. |
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There remains an error in the IBM page above & the Gentoo doc version, |
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ie the URL given for 'Gentoo Technologies Inc' is 'www.gentoo.org'. |
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Whether the author still maintains GTI in New Mexico isn't clear |
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(there's another 'GTI' in Blacksburg VA , which makes databases etc), |
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but even if so, its Internet site is not the same as Gentoo Foundation's: |
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this needs to be corrected by the maintainer of Gentoo docs & by IBM. |
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One would also assume that the author has a more direct e-address |
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than the forwarding address at Gentoo still given in the article |
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& the personal details seem to be 8 years old (eg "new baby"): |
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those also would better be updated or deleted. |
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In contrast with traditional printed media -- press or advertising -- |
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the Internet is often less precise & therefore can be seriously misleading: |
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there is a lot of out-of-date information lying around |
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& no-one to take responsibility for it. |
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So no alarm, but cause for a couple of updates when time permits. |
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