I saw a great quote on-line recently: Asking programmers for legal advice is like asking WoW players how to improve your sex life.
Joseph On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > > > Owner rights, third party rights, compiler rights, moral rights, subsisting > rights ... this is rather frightening. How does one juggle all of these > rights? Now I have this uneasy feeling that I barely own anything I’ll ever > write anymore. > > > > It’s reassuring to know that we have a software developer turned lawyer in > this group, that will hopefully stop the VB vs C# wars due to the threat of > defamation and libel. > > > > Ps. Steve, I’ve written an email that contains every English dictionary > word, so by your reckoning, every email you and everyone else writes will > probably be a copyright infringement. I also have a Turing Machine program > here that is capable of answering all solvable problems, so every piece of > software written for evermore will be a copyright violation as well. > > > > Greg > -- Joseph Cooney http://jcooney.net
