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.
> 
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