[Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the National Portrait Gallery ...

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/7/11 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
>   
>> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/7/11 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>>>       
>>>> The case is under English and welsh law. For solid legal reasons the
>>>> NPG will be willing to make a reasonable settlement.
>>>>
>>>> Since we know that the NPG are not completely stupid and English law
>>>> in any case lacks statutory damages it would seem to be somewhat
>>>> improbable that any course of action we can take can make them insist
>>>> on an unreasonable settlement.
>>>>         
>>> You can't know that and it's not your place to guess. Just stay out of
>>> it unless Derrick asks for your help.
>>>       
>> He did choose to make the letter public.
>>     
> How is that relevant?
If he didn't want public comments he would not have made the letter 
public; he might have chosen more private WMF channels.

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