Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ClearSight/GPL update (fwd)

[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 06:01:55PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> > They have balls.
> 
> Or perhaps they just have a lawyer who says that if they say anything
> other than "we don't believe we did anything wrong" they open themselves
> up to more severe legal action than if they say "we don't believe we did
> anything wrong, but we'll settle the dispute by separately installing
> Ethereal as a binary that's run as an out-of-process OLE server".
> 
> I.e., their stubbornness on that point might be something their lawyers
> told them they had to exhibit.

Yes, I think they have to take a position similar to that, however, they 
could have worded things to be less confrontational :-)

They do not seem to value the Ethereal community at all :-(

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com