[gPXE] Changes to Etherboot Project roles and responsibilities

[Michael Brown]

Marty,

I'm not even going to dignify your ranting with a point-by-point demolition.  
However, there is one line that really angered me:

> This was in addition to developing the concept of gPXE in the first
> place,

You didn't develop the "concept of gPXE".  You chose the name "gPXE".  That 
was, essentially, your sole technical contribution in the evolution from 
Etherboot to gPXE.  That was all that you did.

I have for years sat quietly by and bitten my tongue at your ever more 
audacious attempts to claim credit for my work.  As I have confided to some 
of the other people on this list, this has been one of the primary reasons 
for my spending ever more time away from the project; indeed, last summer I 
was seriously considering announcing that I was quitting for good, because it 
was just too demoralising to carry on dealing with your ego.

> Since you have repeatedly demonstrated that you are not interested in
> working in a supportive, collaborative manner that respects all
> members of the project, please fork or find another project to work on.

As the person who actually developed gPXE, and who remains the majority 
copyright holder, I would say that the responsibility to fork is yours, if 
you wish to do so.  I appreciate that you own the gpxe.{org,net,com} domains, 
as a result of your having initially chosen the name "gPXE".  I would ask you 
to transfer ownership of these to me, for which I will pay a fair rate.  I 
appreciate that you also own the physical machine rom.etherboot.org; I am 
happy to transfer hosting to my own server.

Michael