dpbsmith(a)verizon.net wrote:
His belief system--and I regard him as knowledgeable
about this--was
that _nobody really knows_ the the legal situation in such matters,
absent an actual lawsuit. He held the conspiracy theory that
intellectual properly laws are deliberately vague and ambiguous,
because that insures power remains in the hands of companies big
enough to retain lawyers.
There is no question that there is an element of truth to both of
these points.
--Jimbo