Re: Penguin Computing & LinuxCare

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

"Aaron D. Turner" wrote:

> Good luck in the job!

Thanks.  It's actually more likely that I'll be heading to Austin.  But
we'll see.  Sam said he didn't know when he'd be needing someone else. 
That's OK - Austin would probably be a more interesting place to live
anyway...

> One thing though...  There's some bad blood between VA and PC (aparently
> not friendly competitors) and VA asked me to not work a sponsorship deal
> with PC for the LKB.  Figured I was safe, so I happily said yes.  Oh well.
> I just love politics (sic), but alas, humans are policitcal animals.

Crap.  I sort of expected Sam didn't want to hear that.  I guess we're
OK.  I doubt PC would give us anything we couldn't get from VA.

But that brings up a point ... do we have a contract with VA for this
stuff?  What are our obligations exactly?  Can we work out deals with
other companies, as long as they don't compete with VA?

Speaking of VA, they have some money on their hands.  A *MILLION*
dollars for linux.com?????????????

> As for Linux Care and the rest of the LKB's in the world, I really don't
> think they have anything to offer us.  Our model is drastically different
> from theirs.  Ours is a de-centralized content model, everyone else's is a
> centralized model.  They want to keep control, we want to give out
> control.

They have content.  And they *might* want our DB setup, who knows. 
Might be worth talking to them.  Maybe not.

Brings up another point.  Are we gonna be releasing our code and DB
schema at all?  If we do, it might be a good idea to agree on a license.