Questions about the squeak license

David Shaffer cdshaffer at acm.org
Wed Jan 11 20:08:28 UTC 2006


Cees De Groot wrote:

>On 1/11/06, Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
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>>Exactly! But in the real world there is *nothing* you can do that will
>>keep a user from suing you anyway.
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>Nope. Your best bet is probably to live in a country with a legal
>system that has a very low tolerance for frivolous suits (in other
>words, mostly anywhere but the USofA ;-)).
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Frivolous lawsuites are an international problem.  I believe the term
"Santa clause judge" originated in Australia.  I here "Compensation
culture" from friends in the UK quite a bit.  I'll happily defend the
stupid aspects of or legal system for the sake of the good ones :-)

David




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