[7256] in Kerberos
Re: OpenVision donates Kerberos admin system to MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Kamens)
Sun May 12 02:12:21 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 12 May 1996 05:14:39 GMT
From: jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com (Jonathan Kamens)
In article <VIXIE.96May11155644@wisdom.vix.com>, vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
|> >I applaud OpenVision for donating such a significant piece of technology to
|> >the public domain. However, I am confused as to their motivation. Perhaps
|> >the stock owner can explain it to me.
|>
|> Perhaps. But keep in mind that being willing to donate something when asked
|> is not always the same thing as being internally motivated to donate something.
As far as I know, OV was not "asked" to donate code to MIT. That is,
OV, rather than MIT, initiated the dealings between OV and MIT that led
to the donation of this code.
Paul, the structure of what you wrote above seems to imply that you
might actually already know this, but it seems somewhat ambiguous, so I
thought I should point it out.
(Remember, I don't speak for OV. Yes, I realize that on the Net, this
is supposed to be assumed, but in threads like this, it's easy to
forget it.)
