You seem determined to take offense, Mr Cowan. In the first place, I think you might have missed the point of the Shakespeare quotation preceding the remark you object to. I didn't compare Mr Rosen to a 1L. I wrote that the unavailability of specific performance in contract is 1L material. I made no reference to Rosen. That was a factual statement for the benefit of non-US lawyers and lay readers. Mr Rosen took offense by inferring a comparison that was not implied.
In reply I quoted from Sonnet 111, and said that since I work with law students all the time, if I *had* compared him to one it would hardly have been an accident: I compare lawyers to the students they were all the time. I explained that to you, and you have made it somehow a further ground for offense, demanding a show of contrition that makes no sense whatever. In the second place, I wasn't proposing to shut you up. The only person I can shut up is myself. I was bidding farewell to the conversation, before others began to find it tedious. Now, through no fault of mine, they will in addition begin to find it acrimonious. All the more reason for the silence I proposed. Eben _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
