[plug] Re: Linux trademark license fees?

[Mr Shayne]

I managed ok. A bunch of mod downs, but an even bigger bunch of mod ups.

Seems at least some folks are stil believers in a fair hearing.

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Freedom's just another word for something new to regulate

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Andrew Furey wrote:

> > It wouldn't have done any good anyway.  By the time it hit the frontpage the
> > mob was already in a frenzy.  QuantumG was making a last ditch defence of
> > Jeremy but he was soon modded into oblivion.  Basically, we just saw a public
> > lynching of a friend and there was nothing we could do about it.
>
> I did see a few posts from Jonathan Oxer, who of course was featured
> in the article. Couple of other folks (Bandraginus, for one) were also
> pretty good... pity I threw away my 5 mod points by posting myself :(
>
>
> > Personally, if I was Jeremy, I'd be at least looking at suing people like Tom
> > Hudson for liable - quote: 'Jere4my Malcolm is not a practicing lawyer.  He's
> > a whore for the Church of Scientology.'  Drag /. into the mix and you could
> > really set the cat amongst the pigeons =).
>
> Erm, yes... tomhudson is the sole entry on my Foes list :(
>
> I don't know if suing will do much good - thanks to the 1st Amendment,
> defamation isn't near as serious over in America (that was the whole
> story behind the DMCA letters which crop up in criticism, BTW).
>
> Andrew
>
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