On 2 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Lawyers are involved? This makes it imperitive that no change ever get > > off the ground ATM. Compromising around a lawyer is like bleeding around > > a shark: you don't do it twice. > > I have no idea what "ATM" means.
At This Moment > I know a Randroid might think all lawyers are the same, but amazingly, > they are not. Ahhh! Out of logical refutation, you fall to the last refuge of the incompetent: personal attacks. > I thought it should be obvious that the GPL was drafted by attorneys, > and of course, complicated legal questions should be addressed with > the assistance of those who are experts in the law. Lawyers or experts in law? IME the sets have only the most passing of acquaintances. > The FSF's usual counsel is a law professor who donates his time; he's > not some corporate stooge only concerned for money. What else would > you think? And he works for the FSF, not the other way round. I swear that the Bar exams are ethicsectomies. But I will admit to the hypothetical of an ethical lawyer somewhere... The laws of chance have produced far stranger things... > And, I can certainly affirm, RMS makes up his own mind. No lawyer > ever could make it up for him. Does he strike you as the sort of > person to just do whatever a lawyer says? In any case, the reason > he's asking them is because I mentioned to him some cases and > questions people were asking here, and some of them represented issues > he had not considered, so he thought he should ask them what they > think. Exactly how to interpret licenses is a *legal* question, after > all. We seem to do the job without lawyers...save a certain group of net.lawyers that sometimes includes yours truly... > Thomas > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Customer: "I'm running Windows '98" Tech: "Yes." Customer: "My computer isn't working now." Tech: "Yes, you said that." Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
