Re: [zd1211-devs] Re: ZD1211 documentation

[Markus K. <mar...@gm...>]

Graham,
> Markus, do you work for Zydas? Or have any affiliation with them whatsoever?
> Ive been lurking on this list for several months now, and have seen nothing
> but power hungry rants from you. What do you hope to accomplish by
> pushing people around in this manner?
>
> It's quite clear to me that Remco sent this to the list to further show how
> unreasonable you are. I can understand why you didn't want that made
> public.
>
> I suggest anyone interested in actually developing a driver contact Zydas
> themselves for the documentation, because clearly this project is going
> nowhere.
>
> Graham
>
>
>   
Actually I do not work for ZyDAS nor I am power hungry. In fact, I 
already told on this list that I will pass my project ownership and all 
rights and duties to the next project manager that will be elected 
starting December 15. You should know that when following my postings so 
actively as you say.

Indeed I personally would send the PDFs to anyone (actually I wanted to 
put them on a free download server), but they are confidential 
documents. ZyDAS sent me the documents under very, very, very hard 
restrictions. Maybe the guys that joined in January 2005 can remember. I 
managed to convince ZyDAS to lower the restrictions. But they did not 
want to make the docs as open as you (and me) like it to be.

You can discuss that as long as you like, but you will not change ZyDAS 
mind (congratulations if you succeed). In fact at the moment I am in 
direct contact to ZyDAS CEO and CTO as you know, as I posted this on the 
mailing list. They told me that they are satisfied with the current 
situation, and they do not see any need to change their policy. As I am 
the project manager, and I am responsible for what happens to the docs, 
I have to respect the rules ZyDAS applies. Otherwise they would revoke 
our licence to look into the docs. And that is what nobody wants, I think.

ZyDAS does not have any interest in our driver. They have their own one, 
as you know. We negotiated on merging our teams and projects, but they 
did not further pursue that idea.

For those trying to talk directly to ZyDAS: In the past they didn't even 
respond to such emails but just forwarded them to me to answer it. So in 
the end you will have to live with my hardlining policy unless the next 
project owner elected in December either managed it to convince ZyDAS to 
lower the restrictions or to break the rules and such incur a penalty.

So actually I do not understand your critics: You are free to vote 
another project manager in december. You are also free to nominate 
yourself as a project leader, if you think you have better luck in 
talking to ZyDAS or have less fear to get impeached for copyright 
infringement.

The reason for telling remco not to copy to the list was not that I 
didn't like my answers to be posted on the list, but I don't want to 
read the same emails twice. Not more, not less. If he wants to send only 
to the list this is okay, it is also okay to only send it to me. But 
please do not send it to both. A second aspect is that all he liked to 
discuss already is discussed and he will not archieve a change in the 
policy by complaining once more. All he achieves is that now we all lost 
even more time by discussing things we cannot change, since only ZyDAS 
is in the position to change it. And if his and your request is to 
uninstall my position as project manager, this request is useless since 
I already told on this list that I will retire from all of my positions 
as soon as the next project manager is elected, which will be done by 
end of December.

So what actually do you want to achive with this discussion? The only 
sense I see is stealing my private time, actually. Neither can I change 
ZyDAS' policy, nor will I break ZyDAS's rules, nor will I accept anyone 
of you breaking that rules, nor will the election start or end sooner 
than posted. So what's the trouble?

Markus