From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c42dbf68f5320193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-02 04:58:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT:Copyright, was Re: Generation of permutations Date: 2 May 2002 04:58:30 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205020358.adbbd7d@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0205011356.5859c81e@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1020340711 9066 127.0.0.1 (2 May 2002 11:58:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 May 2002 11:58:31 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23400 Date: 2002-05-02T11:58:31+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:... > > The law is based on statute and on precedence of case law, > > not on Tom Moran's suspicions. > For an alternate view, I cite "The life of the law has not been logic; > it has been experience.", and "The prophecies of what the courts will do > in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law." and > "the only question for the lawyer is, how will the judges act?" Oliver > Wendell Holmes, Jr. Tom, please consult the case law in the area of copyright, or a good text book on IPR issues, you are really very wrong here. It is one thing when you give technical advice that is wrong on Ada matters, another when you suggest to people that they can violate copyrights with impunity :-)