On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:33:05PM -0500, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 102 lines which said:
> I will grant that these definitions are imperfect and improbable > arguments could be lodged against them; at the same time, I believe > that reasonable people not engaging in a Jesuit exercise to find > logical needles in a haystack of common sense are able to tell the > difference between a manpage and a C source file. <aol>I agree completely</aol>. Legal issues are not binary, unlike what many computer scientist seem to believe. Laws are often not 0-and-1s, because they have to adapt to many real-world situations and they should not be too formal, otherwise, technological or social changes could make them obsolete a long time before the Parliament has any leisure to update them.
