On Mon, 14 May 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:51:37PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > > The founders are myself and Tim Sailer. Our specific goal at the time > > was to protect Debian developers from personal liability by giving them > > a corporate shield. This purpose was not achieved, but IMO is more > > important today than it was in 1998. > > AFAICT, it's more futile. If someone really wants to go out to sue > Debian developers for doing what they do, the legal system in the US > still allows them, and no matter how much money we got in the > meantime, someone with money to waste on this purpose now likely has > even more. > > So, since there's nothing that can save us in that game, other than > popularizing common sense and the world becoming a better place, > let's just keep trying never to play it?
Indeed; what is interesting too is the presence of such a corporate shield with liability insurance means that if at the end of the day the plantiff prevails the odds of actually getting paid is a near certainty. That is certainly not the case when an individual can enter bankruptcy or otherwise has little net worth at all. Don Armstrong -- If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too. -- W. Somerset Maugham http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
