RE: sprank

[Neil.Francis]

That's also what I feel when I see footers like that.  I also wonder about 
intellectual property claims.  Suppose a poster with like that makes a sharp 
suggestion for how to improve code within Octave.  Could their company come 
back and claim that we (well, Octave folk, as I'm not a contributor) stole 
their intellectual property, based on us acting on the content of a message 
with a footer like that?

Neil

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Corrado [mailto:address@hidden
>  Sent: Monday, 12 April 2010 5:50 PM
>  To: address@hidden
>  Subject: Re: sprank
>  
>  That footer sounds very vague, threatening, dependent on interpretation
>  and potentially harmful. I, for one, would not answer an email whose
>  footer I do not understand and feel threatened by.
>  
>  Would it not be much easier if the sender opened a free email account
>  somewhere else and sent emails to FS/OS communities from that email
>  address?
>  
>  HTH
>  
>  
>  udd Storrs wrote:
>  > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ulrich Staudinger
>  > <address@hidden> wrote:
>  >
>  >>  By
>  >> the term action, we understand legal action or some action with
>  serious
>  >> effort - something that makes a court case a doable thing - we don't
>  speak
>  >> about action that cost you nothing and me nothing.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Are you rendering legal council?
>  >
>  >
>  > --judd
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