Hello Scott and the rest who replied, The situation which I described to you a couple weeks ago seems to be improving. I fought tooth and nail and refused to compromise on what I consider to be the spirit and the letter of our Open Source licenses. The company that we're working with dropped all non-competition and confidentiality clauses from the contracts for the current branch of our GPL, LGPL and GFDL project. Unfortunately, they probably compromised because we had them by the balls and not because they learned something. Oh well! While the other three members of our four person team have signed appreciable contracts, I haven't signed. I've decided to complete my work without a contract, it'll drive the Human Resources Manager to an early grave. Several other good things emerged from the after dust. We found another Job Shop that offered to hire our entire team. Open Source research and development shops are alive and well in Europe. None of us will work for this other company because the current one is showing some promise. Our project has been seperated from the rest of the company which allows us to define contracts so we can shop parts of our project out to independent contractors. Now comes the fun part, delivering the product which we're being paid to finish. The Free Software Foundation did respond to the letter I sent asking for advice. They offered their lawyer probono (sic). I thought that was exceptional. The offer was only for advice not representation. Dispite the fact that we're not working on the Kernel or Emacs, they actually take an interest. Pretty damned cool in the mind of a nobody like me. Well, just thought folks might be interested in a follow up to my original post. As a side note, these freaks eat raw red meat. Like a dish called "Mexican goobelie glop" is just raw hamburger with a mint leaf tossed onto a dish. At first I was disgusted but then I thought about it and decided, that sorta rules! What remains disgusting is the sausage I ordered after not eating for about 24 hours...turned out to be Pig's guts. What the hell are thinking. ron, clueless in the land that created lingerie, parker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org