Announcement from www.kubuntu.de

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:04 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:

> Not all strikes are legal.  I think it's time for you to do a little
> research.  There was, in fact, a time when all strikes were illegal.
> Now strikes are illegal unless you're in a legal strike position.
> Striking when you're not in such a position is called a wildcat.
A bit of a closer look (search google for define:wildcat strike)
reveals, as I thought, that the only thing that differentiates a wildcat
strike is the support of a union, not the legal status of the strike.

So in the case of the kubuntu.de people you could call it a wildcat
strike (I assume they're not covered by a union agreement with
(k)ubuntu), but I'm not convinced that volunteers who stop contributing
their time for free can be called strikers.

They just withdraw their recompensed sevices.

Duncan