On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:33:41AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > Is it? http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/ is quoted in every single > > release notice. Because I did not know it contained anything that should > > not be known about. > > Just because someone can theoretically navigate to the URL doesn't mean > anything. > > > That would be far too late. They would sue us for damages. Whether they > > won or not, it'd be an almighty mess. > > Firstly, this is nonsense, there is no way that Sun would go to such > lengths over a minor (and debatable) license infringement. Secondly, > even if this were not the case, Sun is the least of our legal worries. > > > Yes indeed. The common sense view is that we are distributing the Sun > > JRE without license. At least within the community of people who read > > the mailing lists, which is pretty huge if you count the possible > > readers from the archives. > > Sorry, I didn't notice that you had conducted a comprehensive survey - > how many of the respondants were lawyers?
You said "common sense". In other words, not the legal opinion, the naive opinion from reading the text. > > > > I have no problem getting responses from Sun when I need to - perhaps > > > you aren't asking politely? > > > > Perhaps I don't ask politely because their code and the fact that it > > hasn't been fixed in over a year and now they are rushing ahead with > > AIO, functional programming and other such bullshit when nobody in their > > right mind would write a server app using java.nio demonstrates that > > they are total fuckwits? > > I guess that answers my question. :) > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ > Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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