Dude, i asked you for your own story. There are 6000000000 people on this planet. I could find you a person who was bitten by a polar bear on the south pole. That doesnt make it a trend worth worrying about. Sad.
-----Original Message----- From: "Brian Yennie" <[email protected]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> Sent: 3/21/2009 2:10 AM Subject: Re: illegal creativity? Here's an example just to get you started: http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/07/15/blizzard-wins-lawsuit-against-bot-makers/ I actually disagree with the judgement and think it sets a dangerous precedent. But guess what, the boogieman won. > Really, please do tell me of the times you have been sued for breach > of a software user agreement. I cant wait to hear how often this > blight has been brought down apon your small business. Come on. Is > this a joke? > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Brian Yennie" <[email protected]> > To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> > Sent: 3/21/2009 1:25 AM > Subject: Re: illegal creativity? > > Randall, > > Beside your questionable grasp of the law, you are making a straw man > argument. Even if "reasonable man" arguments worked as simply as you > imagine, it wouldn't follow that everything in a EULA other than > copyright is unenforceable. Believe it or not, licensing agreements > cover things other than copyright and sometimes are even upheld. > > Furthermore, being "right" doesn't necessarily keep a small business > from being put out of business by a lawsuit. Often times the larger > entity just needs enough collateral damage (even in losing the case) > to ruin you. > > It seems like you have been reading too much SlashDot and running too > few businesses. > >> I didnt know i was conversing with people from north korea and >> iran. In the us, japan, canada, mexico, brazil, iceland, south >> africa, russia, israel, india, and most of europe, etc. There is a >> difference between criminal law and civil contract law. In most >> moderen democratic societies, the wording in product contracts are >> considdered about as binding as santa or the stuff car salesmen say >> right before they go off to "talk to the manager". And that is >> because of a liile thing called "the reasonable man". This >> basically means that a contract or law cannot be inforced if it goes >> outside of what would be reasonably considdered fair. Ant that is >> because guys sitting behind big expensive oak drsks making big >> salaries baid for by big companies can not be assumed to ever act >> like reasonable men (bias and conflict of interest is a given). >> Criminal law on the other hand is written by people we vote for and >> require to "uphold the constitution". No such standerd is expected >> in contract law. The only thing you can be expected to do when you >> purchace software is to not copy and sell it. The rest is >> hilariously written bs and the court treats it as so. Sorry. The >> truth. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Ruslan Zasukhin" <[email protected]> >> To: "use-revolution" <[email protected]> >> Sent: 3/21/2009 12:13 AM >> Subject: Re: illegal creativity? >> >> On 3/21/09 4:13 AM, "Randall Reetz" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> All mosquitos are relevant. It is scale that matters here. Scale >>> and >>> reality. Else all of us would be behind bars and prohibited from >>> buying crest [truncated by sender] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
