Re: Microsoft finally acknowledges the security drumbeats
From: Dave Korn (no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid)Date: 02/22/02
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From: "Dave Korn" <no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:09:00 -0000
"Marty Fouts" <usenet-user@usa.net> wrote in message
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> "Dave Korn" <no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid> writes:
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> > "Marty Fouts" <usenet-user@usa.net> wrote in message
> > news:uheocms7y.fsf@usa.net...
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> > > "Dave Korn" <no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid> writes:
> > >
> > > > "Marty Fouts" <usenet-user@usa.net> wrote in message
> > > > news:uit8tpcjo.fsf@usa.net...
> > > > >
> > > > > "Dave Korn" <no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid> writes:
> > > > >
> > > > > > "Marty Fouts" <usenet-user@usa.net> wrote in message
> > > > > > news:uzo262lbr.fsf@usa.net...
> > > > >
> > > > > > > The person who is being pseudoclever and employing the child.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Wow. You've just discovered the single-ended fraud, in which
> > > > > > one party defrauds without any other party being defrauded. (I
> > > > > > assume that you aren't actually claiming this, but I do need you
> > > > > > to be specific about WHO I am alleged to have defrauded.
> > > > > > Otherwise I still have no case to answer).
> > > > >
> > > > > If you don't know by now, I'm not going to explain it any further.
> > > >
> > > > How about posting the MsgID where you *ever* explained it?
> > >
> > > How about working it out for your self?
> >
> > Nope. You're the performing seal round here, not me. If you have
> > something to say, say it. I'm not here to do your work for you.
>
> It's not my work I'm asking you to do for me, it's your own
> thinking. We're not talking rocket science here.
>
> >
> > > There are only four parties involved in the transaction, if you
> > > ignore the retail merchant, who is, after all, only acting as an
> > > agent of the property right holder.
> >
> > You're bringing an as-yet unstated assumption about the nature and
> > content of any potential contract of sale between the software
> > manufacturer and the retail vendor into the argument just like that?
> > Cute. I expect you've got a string of flags of all nations up your
> > other sleeve.
>
> Um, the nature and content of the potential contract is what started
> this discussion.
>
> > > It shouldn't take you too many guesses to figure out who the
> > > person who's trying to avoid the EULA is trying to defraud.
> >
> > If you want me to write your posts and make your arguments for you,
> > you'll have to pay me standard author's guild rates. Otherwise you
> > can whistle for it.
>
> If you want me to do your thinking for you, you'll have to pay me my
> standard consulting rate.
You can't charge for that, it'd never pass the merchantability or
fitness-for-purpose tests.
Unless of course you've disclaimed all that away in some kind of EULA.
DaveK
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