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Re: Free software, free speech, human dignity


From: John Hasler
Subject: Re: Free software, free speech, human dignity
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:16:14 -0500
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Andreas Röhler writes:
> Now imagine someone loses his case accused of GPL-violation and can't pay
> the court's fees or indemnities. That's fairly possible as his business,
> missing GPLed software then, might go bankrupt same time. Do you image a
> court, who sends a mother to prison for 10 or 20 Euro, will hesitate to
> send him for serveral thousand?

In the US inability to pay a debt can never result in imprisonment.  I
doubt that it can in Germany.

> OK, take breath. Sounds heavy, but its just some exercise reflecting
> things we enjoy both.

Sounds like trolling to be.  Or perhaps just crackpottery.
-- 
John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA


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