This is nuts. I thought this would be somewhere I could learn. But this is going to far. Let's get back on track.
-----Original Message----- From: Zoltán Kócsi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 9:23 PM To: dev@documentation.openoffice.org Subject: Re: [documentation-dev] Template licence + On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:15:04 +0100 Christian Lohmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, but do we need a warning that says: Do not use OOo to write > blackmail-letters? > Do not use OOo-Draw to create blueprints of a bomb? > > Does the world really need warnings like "Do not but your hampster in > the microwave-oven"? Yes, unfortunately you do. As long as there are societies where lawyers can make money from inevitable user stupidity, you need a warning. People put their hamspter into the microwave oven. The hampster dies (although probably the human gene pool would be better off if the hampster's owner was dead, not the rodent). Now if you live in certain places in the world, where common sense has long gone, then a lawyer will sue the oven manufacturer for negligence, because you can not expect that the average citizen of such a country would be able to figure out that if the microwave can boil a cup of water in less than a minute, it could possibly kill the roughly same weight hampster that is roughly 80% water anyway. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the company to explicitely tell the user not to put the hampster, the cat or, for that matter, the baby into the microwave oven because it can be dangerous to their life. As long as the average sanity keeps nosediving and the amount of money you can extort steadily goes up you do need those warnings otherwise you'll be hit very hard indeed. Long gone the days where if a child climbed a junglegym and fell it was his fault - today it is the council's fault, because they did not adequately pad the ground around it and did not warn the parents that climbing up has the inherent risk of falling down which can be painful or even harmful. Kid falls, leg breaks, parents sue council, council bulldozes the playground and sells the land for the new offices of a lawfirm. Let's heil the brave, new world... Zoltan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
