One needs to read this, if one assumed that the above-cited e-mail got him banned:

http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists....

Seems odd that someone should be banned for life for a fairly tame message that was already automatically filtered (one assumes for the various word choices not the content)...

You are assuming above that the guy that wrote the memo leaked it to the press. I suspect that we all write memos for our work places that could get us fired IF WE LEAKED IT to the press. However, I have seen no mention that the memo author was in fact the person that LEAKED IT. When will Google fire that person or persons?

> Who initiated the treatment? He did with his 10 page write-up.

No, the person or persons that leaked it to the press did that.

Will google go on a witch hunt to fire all those people too? Likely not...

I wonder how many Apple employees will be fired for speaking their minds (or writing 10 page documents) about how much they hate open office designs...