On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:23:51PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > "to give any third party", this fails the Desert Island (or some > > variant of it) test. > > Nobody on a desert island can be requested to do anything.
Sure you can; send a message in a bottle (or via one-way satellite). Lots of desert island failures are like that, eg. "if the original author requests the source, you must send it". This also fails the Chinese Dissident test: if I *have* to give you a written offer that can be given to someone else, then it's forcing me to communicate with whoever you decide to give it to. (I suppose you could draw a line between the DI and CD tests by using the former to test "can't communicate at all, in either direction" and the latter for "doesn't want to communicate", though I don't think I've seen that distinction made before.) -- Glenn Maynard
