From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 4 18:22:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA18933 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA18901 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA13034; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 12:53:13 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601050223.MAA13034@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Has the copyright dust settled? To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 12:53:12 +1030 (CST) Cc: grog@lemis.de, doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9601042106.AA28385@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jan 4, 96 02:06:14 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Sean Kelly stands accused of saying: > > >>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lehey writes: > > >> [SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT] > > Greg> OK, I don't understand the US legal system (does anybody? > Greg> :-), but I have never understood the illegible shouting in > Greg> these clauses. > > Good question. Maybe it's just some long standing habit that clueless > lawyer-wannabes have duplicated for eons. It's actually because someone once (successfully) argued that putting it in lower case was tantamount to hiding it, and thus it must be emphasised or the precedent automatically invalidates it. There's an idirect reference to this in one of the "Artur Blord" stories (Arthur C Clarke? it was a long time ago...) where a company prints all of its letterhead _except_ the PTY LTD in lowecase... > Sean Kelly -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[