[Asterisk-Dev] Digium and mailing lists

[dking at pimpsoft.com]

I don't care what anybody says. I'm an American and I have the constitutional right to free speech. If you try to stop that what befalls you is your own fault. I highly doubt anybody would be so blatantly stupid as to take such a moronic action to try.

And remember it's there choice the host the mailing lists. Logic dictates they do it so they have control over them as part of there business model since they could easily open a sourceforge account for example, but that also gives them as a american company the rights I have as a american citizen.

Sure there motives may be greedy in some peoples eyes, but that doesn’t change the constitutional right to free speech American’s have.


On 26 Sep 2004 at 19:17, Daniel Pocock wrote:

> 
> I was somewhat concerned reading Mark's posting earlier today.
> 
> Obviously, things are very bad in the US at the moment.  Their 
> Government even deported Cat Stevens the other day (check 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3686992.stm ).
> 
> Clearly, given the fact that Digium contributes so much to Asterisk, 
> they shouldn't be forced to risk their company's future by hosting these 
> mailing lists in such an unstable environment where they could get sued 
> for any ridiculous reason.  Even an unjustified, ambit claim could 
> generate huge defence costs on Digium's part, and cripple their ability 
> to contribute to Asterisk.
> 
> Therefore, it seems to be in the best interests of Asterisk's `security' 
> to have the mailing lists hosted by someone other than Digium and maybe 
> in a country that doesn't prohibit freedom of expression.
> 
> I would certainly be willing to organise hosting through another company 
> that wouldn't be at risk from vexatious legal claims.  This would allow 
> genuinely open discussion on the lists and would mean that no messages 
> would need to be censored from the archives.
> 
> 
> 
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