Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:31:42PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote=20
> > > Under *some* countries using the *minority* Droit d'Auteur > > > system, perhaps. =20 > > > Under the system used in the majority of the world,=20 > > I strongly object: Great Britain and its former colonies are not the > > majority of the world, whatever your criteria (number of inhabitants, > > GNP, etc) are. > I strongly object to your objection. The U.S., U.K., and other > countries using the "common law" legal system are important enough > within the domain of discussion (Free Software distributed by the Debian > Project) to be granted consideration. It is true that the common-law part of the world is important. That does not make it a "majority", which was what Nathanael claimed it was. -- Henning Makholm "... and that Greek, Thucydides"