[nylug-talk] Shrinkwrap Licenses: An Epidemic Of Lawsuits Waiting To Happen (fwd)

[Kevin Mark]

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On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:55:48PM -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> On 2/3/07, Ron Guerin <ron at vnetworx.net> wrote:
> > Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> >
> > >   I rarely meet OSS people who are aware of this legislation, so you
> > > are certainly not alone.
> >
> > I'm wondering if Ruben's not pulling your leg, because he's an activist
> > about this stuff, and it's not like it hasn't been discussed in here
> > before.  If he's not, then it certainly proves your point.
> 
>    Well some people forget to use the <sarcasm> tag... as there is no
> way for me to know on a news list when someone is kidding and when
> they're not.  If Ruben is an activist about UCITA related things, good
> for him.  Obviously there are plenty of people who are still unaware
> of UCITA.  Apparently Cory Doctorow didn't feel it was necessary to
> even give mention of UCITA, and that is why I added it.
> 
>    People in Arizona are in general much less sarcastic than New Yorkers :) .
> 
>    -jmz
Most folks should be regular readers of /. and if so, they'd have seen
the evil UCITA story ages ago. as well as the fact that it never got
much traction. at least that's my recollection, as a /. junkie.
ymmv.
Kev
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