On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:30:12PM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > > > COMPUCLICK IS AUTHORIZED MANUFACTURER OF THE OFFICIAL CD OF DEBIAN AND BY > > > EACH CD THAT YOU BUY TO US YOU CONTRIBUTE TO AUTOMATICAMENTE A DOLAR TO > > > ALL PROJECTS DEBIAN/GNU BY INTERVAL OF FOUNDATION SPI
What kind of crap is this? Who taught this person English? Binding legal terms should be written in clear, unambiguous, grammatic, and spell-checked language. * An indefinite article is required before "AUTHORIZED". To use the definite article would be false. * "BY EACH CD THAT YOU BUY TO US" is some of the worst preposition abuse I've ever seen. The phrase is nonsensical. * "YOU CONTRIBUTE TO" should not be followed by an adverb, if that's what that piece of subsequent garbage is. * "AUTOMATICAMENTE" isn't even a word. * "DOLAR" isn't a word, either. * "ALL PROJECTS DEBIAN/GNU" is not a grammatical construct. * There is no such thing as "DEBIAN/GNU". Debian is one entity, GNU is another; neither project exists in enough of a legal sense to be able to receive funding in the formal manner described. * "BY INTERVAL OF" is also not a grammatical construct. * "SPI" is not a foundation. * If one wants to donate money to Debian, one donates to Software in the Public Interest, Inc. If one wants to donate money to GNU, one donates to the Free Software Foundation. * There is no period at the end of this sentence, if it is reasonable to call this horrible piece of filth a sentence. I suggest "COMPUCLICK" confine themselves to conducting business only in languages with which they have some facility (if any exist). I don't think we would be deriving much of a revenue stream from them anyway, if their arithmetic skills are as poor as their linguistic ones. Permission is hereby granted to redistribute this mail, particularly if it makes its way back to the chowderheads who wrote that piece of excrement. -- G. Branden Robinson | You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux | Or you don't live long. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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