<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 12:10 PM Stefano Maffulli <<a href="mailto:stefano@maffulli.net">stefano@maffulli.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The cases may never be resolved and be settled out of court with conspicuous payments.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The plaintiffs definitely want a precedent in case law, and some of them have deep pockets.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
you're **vastly** overestimating your power to drag your friends and family and colleagues, and private+public services</blockquote><div><br></div><div>We are having this discussion because my friends and I dragged all of those folks to something new and revolutionary called Open Source. I did not refrain from doing that in consideration of the limits of my power or, the worse one: the fear of failure.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Stop right there: OSI isn't afraid of offending one sponsors, we don't respond to them.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Simon Phipps was a witness and we can discuss that offline if you wish, and I don't believe you further the discussion by so taking umbrage. While I am confident in what Stef could do, independently of his OSI position, OSI's limitations are embedded in OSI's corporate formation documents, and in their broader social milieu. It is no crime that OSI can not do everything.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks</div><div><br></div><div> Bruce</div></div></div>