On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Da Rock <rock_on_the_web(a)comcen.com.au> wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:34 +1000, Res wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Tim wrote:
>
> > Sure. The consensus if you want to do something illegal, use something
> > else. There's nothing stopping you from doing so, and there's plenty
of
> > "something elses" for you to use.
>
> The definition of illegal is wrongly exampled here. I know its been a long
> time since I bothered reading fedora EULA, but I must have missed the bit
> that said "by use of this software you automatically submit to the non-
> exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S courts and its laws" if that's in
there,
> no wonder I'm not using this crud again.
>
> A more appropriate response would have been "if you want to do something
> that is illegal in your country, use something else", and if unsure,
> consult a local lawyer, not a bunch of loonies on the net who all profess
> to be legal experts and think the entire world is governed by U.S law,
> which thankfully, it aint!
Indeed! Here, here. Trouble is their law invariably gets enforced
elsewhere due to treaties, alliances, imposed restrictions where charity
is given, and other quasi-legal means. And I don't believe they've even
heard of the bill of human rights, let alone understand and believe in
it.
Either way, Fedora is no martyr for the cause of any US global
dominance -- Fedora is just a community which puts out a Linux distro,
and happens to be based in the most lawyer friendly country of this
time period.
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