[Nightwing] Update on the Orion Mesh Fiasco: The MicroBSD Fiasco

[Outback Dingo]

hohummm

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Julio Cesar Puigpinos <
jcpuigpinos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Continuing with the case of the violation of the GPLv3 license of the
> Nightwing firmware [1], the LUGRo-Mesh Team has continued to
> investigate Mr. Scott Kamp and was able to find that it is not the
> first time that he make abuses of Copyright.
>
> Searching in Google, we could find information about the MicroBSD
> Fiasco occurred in 2003.
>
> This fiasco is about the fork of OpenBSD called MicroBSD [2]. In this
> case the claim came from Theo de Raadt [3], among others, because of
> the failure to respect the Copyright of OpenBSD.
>
> The MicroBSD project was led by a user with nick Outback Dingo
> (dingo at microbsd.net), called Scott Kamp. Oh coincidence :)
>
>
> References about this fact:
>
> In the list openbsd-misc you can read e-mails on this fact, some
> interesting are:
>    * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=104570206117686&w=2
>    * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=104570906624233&w=2
>    * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=104571023325099&w=2
>    * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=104576154720463&w=2
>
> >From the last one we rescued the final conclusion of David Riley:
> “…I think the idea behind MicroBSD’s work (a fork) was perfectly valid
> and acceptable… right up to the point where they took credit for other
> peoples’ work.”
>
> Which applies perfectly to what happened with the Orion Mesh fiasco.
>
> As proof of the disrespect of the Copyright:
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2003-02/1598.html
>
> In all the cases you can continue reading the rest of the e-mails that
> are part of the respective threads and learn more about the subject.
>
> Another fact that came was the closing of the MicroBSD project[4]. The
> same thing happened with Orion: remove all references to the project,
> remove the code, invent excuses, and say untruths so he can look like
> the victim of what happened.
>
> The behavior of OutBackDingo: not respecting the Copyright, spamming
> in forum to praise his "product", giving false excuses, to always try
> to be the "victim", and so was then and now. Which shows that the
> procedure that this "person" has is common and chronic.
>
> More information about the MicroBSD fiasco and Scott Kamp (A.K.A.
> Outback Dingo or Dingo):
>    * http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/157222
>    * http://www.osnews.com/comments/2878
>    * http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2002/09/Features39b.html
>    * http://osdir.com/ml/netbsd.general/2003-02/msg00302.html
>    * http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200302/microbsd.html
>
> You can also read this email in Portuguese, where other events about
> this "person" are commented:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fugspbr@fugspbr.org/msg06467.html
> English translation of it:
>
> http://translate.google.com.ar/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Ffugspbr%40fugspbr.org%2Fmsg06467.html&sl=pt&tl=en&history_state0=es%7Cen%7CTraduccion%2520del%2520mismo%2520al%2520ingles%253A&swap=1
>
>
>                               The LUGRo-Mesh Team
>
>
> [1] http://nightwing.lugro-mesh.org.ar/doc/corriendo_dingos/
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroBSD
> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt
> [4] http://openbsd.monkey.org/misc/200302/msg00647.html
>
>
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