On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:17:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:13:44AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > It is a freedom that I have by default; if I accept the CDDL I no longer > > have that freedom[1]. [...] > > [1] Technically, not the right to "choose a venue", but the right to not be > > sued in a venue where I have no legal presence.
> Err, that's not a violation of your rights, it's a waste of the court's > time... If the court doesn't see it as a waste of its time, and issues > you with a summons anyway, you're involved. Cf [0]. You might as > well say you've got the "right" not to be flamed on a list you're not > subscribed to. Addressing a flame to me that I will never see does me no harm. I would say that I have the right to not be *slandered* on a list that I'm not subscribed to; given the trends toward globalization and data mining of citizens, I wouldn't assume at all that a default judgement against me in some foreign land is equivalent to an unseen flame instead of an unseen slander. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]