[JDEV] File transfer and file sharing: view of end-user

Richard Dobson richard at dobson-i.net
Wed Oct 23 17:47:38 CDT 2002


On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 02:39  pm, Mattias Campe wrote:

> Richard Dobson wrote:
> [...]
> > This is something that needs to go past the lawyers
>> first so that they can at least supply some legalese to put on the 
>> JEP page
>> to indemnify the JSF from any legal repercussions (hopefully passing 
>> the
>> legal burden onto the end user where it should be).
>
> A disavantage of this can be that users want file sharing and they 
> can't wait for all that lawyers stuff. Most of the  client developers 
> want their client to be the most used on the whole planet (I think 
> this is a very normal way of thinking :) ).

> Now, if you take the two together, maybe a lot of client developers 
> will start to build their own, incompatible, (proprietary?) solutions 
> for file sharing. "Incompatible", because there is no support from the 
> JSF...

That maybe so that impatient people will just go and create their own 
anyway, but the legal problems still remain and if the JSF creates and 
promotes a protocol designed for people setup a file sharing system it 
could bring the JSF into the firing line, IMO it is a VERY bad idea to 
rush into a potentially very dangerous territory for the JSF just 
because people want something now and cant wait a little while to sort 
this stuff out and in doing so protect the JSF. I have seen this 
argument quite a lot that people will end up building their own 
incompatible solution if we dont do it right now, I dont believe that 
for one second, there might be the odd one but they will be in the 
minority, I could understand that if I was saying that the JSF should 
not do it at all, but im not im saying that we should wait a little 
while for the lawyers or whatever to make sure the JSF is protected 
against any kind of comeback standardizing this feature could cause.

Richard





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