Marcus --

I think you and others are still missing the point a little. The 
point is that "anybody can be sued for anything at any time and 
anywhere" regardless of the agreement: SqueakL, GNU, BSD or whatever. 
Having a patent or a license is a kind of beachhead or plateau that 
simply lowers the probability a little of being sued (this is good). 
But it has absolutely nothing to do with the outcome or merits of the 
suit if one happens. There is nothing new here and this operates both 
inside and outside the US. The real thing to avoid is the 
unbelievable timewasting annoyance whether you are cosmically in the 
right or wrong.

Cheers,

Alan




At 8:05 PM +0100 3/13/03, Marcus Denker wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:42:34AM -0500, Jarvis, Robert P. 
>(Contingent) wrote:
>>  > How can they hurt us from where we are?
>>
>>  They can say, "Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  Upon further
>>  review we've concluded that there's a possibility that someone somewhere
>>  might use Squeak to do something bad, so upon the advice of counsel we're
>>  revoking the Squeak license in order to limit our liability.  Shut down your
>>  servers and delete all Squeak-related files.  And have a nice day".
>>
>>  That's what they can do.
>>
>Then I have to ask: Why should I put *any* more work into Squeak? Seriously.
>
>         Marcus
>
>--
>Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeak.de


--