[Foundation-l] Relocation announcement

[Thomas Dalton]

On 22/09/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/09/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > In making this decision, we assessed five major cities: Boston, London,
> > >
> > > If that assessment took more that say 20 seconds we have a problem.
> >
> > Could you elaborate? Are you saying that it should be, in some way,
> > obvious that London is a bad choice? In what way is that?
>
> As discussed interminably on some other list this very week, British
> defamation law is voracious and enthusiastic. Having WMF operating in
> a British jurisdiction, or keeping assets there, is pretty much an
> invitation for someone to sue us in a UK court - a situation where we
> might win but we would certainly suffer.

I thought the main reason British defamation law was "voracious and
enthusiastic" was because it has a very loose definition of what it's
jurisdiction is, so I don't see how the main WMF office being in
Britain would make it any more susceptible to British defamation law.