[luau] Info: HP Uses DMCA To Quash Vulnerability Publication

[Warren Togami]

There is speculation that this is why HP asked Bruce Perens not to violate
the DMCA during the Oreilly Open Source Convention last Friday.  However I
wouldn't worry too much because Bruce Perens is alerted.  He will save the
day... or we will drop HP/Compaq from our Linux friendly vendor list.

Bruce Perens only heard about this stupidity from news reports after he's at
home and most of the company is asleep.  He posted a few things to Slashdot
saying the following:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=37074&cid=3983995
Well, my job is keeping the company from doing stuff that makes its
customers want to "vote with their wallet" as you do, or fixing the problem
when that goes wrong. Give me some chance to do it.
Bruce

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=37074&cid=3983588
Give me some time to investigate the situation, as this is the first I've
heard of it - right here on Slashdot as I come home from dinner. HP is
really still two companies in many ways - Compaq and HP will take a long
time to become entirely integrated, and obviously tru64 is on the Compaq
side. If this is real, I'll have some criticism for HP management.

Bruce

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=37074&cid=3983906
I just woke up my boss and am in email correspondence with various other
people. Obviously, a lot of the people involved are going to be unavailable
until tomorrow morning.

My terms of employment with HP allow me to publicly criticise the company
when necessary. I'd rather help them fix the problem so that the criticism
is all in the past tense, but the criticism will come if necessary. All I
have to go on tonight is news reports.
Thanks

Bruce

Also check out his homepage at http://perens.com.  The following is from his
Resume:

Hewlett-Packard Corporation - 2000 to Present

Senior strategist, Linux and Open Source. I am the first Open Source
evangelist to gain a role in top management of a multi-Billion-dollar
corporation. On the org chart there are only three people between me and the
CEO - a general manager, a vice president, and a president. Among my
assignments is to challenge HP management.

Bruce Perens is truly an awesome guy.

----- Original Message -----
From: <yuser at hi.net>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:33 PM
Subject: [luau] Info: HP Uses DMCA To Quash Vulnerability Publication


> This was posted on /.
>
> Very scary article..
>
> Aside from the DMCA flap, this part in the article caught my eye and is
equally scary.
>