In gnu.misc.discuss Rjack <u...@example.net> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> In gnu.misc.discuss Rjack <u...@example.net> wrote: >>> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>> At the same time, it's a legitimate question to put to Hadron >>>> and you why you spend so much energy posting here, and whether >>>> you're doing so on behalf of an organisation hostile to free >>>> software. Care to answer these questions? >>> Why is it a "legitimate" question? Does copyright law change if >>> organizations are "hostile" to "free" software? If I were really >>> a Microsoft lawyer it wouldn't change copyright law one iota. >> If you were known to be a lawyer, people would lend far more >> credence to what you write about legal matters, and the discussions >> would procede more smoothly. > Huh? > According to a 2004 Gallup poll all of 18% of Americans rated > lawyers' honesty and ethical standards as "very high" or "high". > If I were a lawyer, the last thing I would do is admit it. > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/08/health/webmd/main659857.shtml Ah well, have you heard about British Members' of Parliament expenses? A Newspaper (the Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) got hold of a CD with copies of all MPs' expense claims going back several years, and a lot of them have been basically helping themselves to tax money - things like claiming mortgage interest expenses after the mortgage has long been paid off, for clearing out a moat, .... It's all quite amusing, really - never mind the lawyers, look at the people who make the laws. > Sincerely, > Rjack :) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
