[brlug-general] Nobody should be liable

[michael dolan]

I don't get it.  What does Lewis Carroll have to do with this?  What did I
miss?

As for the discussion at hand,
1.  holding individual programmers responsible will only stifle innovation
2.  It's not politics

ps - gmail put an "i am the walrus" t-shirt ad link on this page, which I
thought was kind of cool.

On 1/22/07, John Hebert <johnahebert at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
> http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html
>
> ...
> "The time has come," the Walrus said,
>      "To talk of many things:
> Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —
>      Of cabbages-and kings —
> And why the sea is boiling hot —
>      And whether pigs have wings."
> ...
>
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> From: Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com>
> To: willhill <general at brlug.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:47:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Nobody should be liable
>
> Nevermind.
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> Saturday, January 20, 2007, 1:52:00 PM, you wrote:
>
> > That looks like a politics discusion, but I'm happy to have it here.
>
> > Microsoft's monopoly position, software ownership and gross negligence
> make it
> > a just target as outrage over insecure software grows.  The trick will
> be
> > making sure that "gross negligence" does not get turned into another
> > anti-competitive tool that harms free software and the industry in
> general.
>
> > There's going to be more of this, and it's not going to depend on user
> action:
>
> > http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/19/1824221.shtml
>
> > If nothing changes, you and I will pay for it through banking fees,
> taxes and
> > currency devaluation.
>
>
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