geni wrote:
On 02/03/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
A good example of the kind of ridiculous behaviour that causes people to leave the project, and which harms the project. Bureaucratic adherence to some letter or worse a fixated interpretation of some policy, instead of making any attempt to understand the *spirit* of what we're trying to do.
The spirit of what we are trying to do is an irrelevance in this case. It is a question of law. The answer FWIW appears to be that it is an issue of contract law and no we've asked appears to be sure of the answer.
When no one understands what some law is saying it's not a particularly useful law.
Ec