On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Kustaa Nyholm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I thin in the courtroom, this is called specullation. > I think the lawyers would insist it is reasoning. >
Those on your side, no doubt :) > >> >> Reasoning is all about mathematics and logic. > Tell that to my lawyer friends! > Oh, I wish I had lawyer friends :) >> >> Yes, I can. I may lose, no question, but I definitely can argue. > How predictably you picked that logic of my wording! I, of course, > knew that you can argue in the physical sense and you know that I > meant that it is not always applicable or successful even if you > can argue it. > Agreed. But at least the topic in GPL2 can be well questioned based on logic, even though not maybe not successfule defended. GPL3 makes this much harder to question even by logic, using precise definitions. > You seem to have very mathematical mind that likes things clear > cut and well define. Yes. > If we only lived in world that is like that. > And then even mathematics have, so I've been told, internal > inconsistencies and paradoxes. > In a sense, yes :) But at least they're well defined :D > > If you ever need to defend your self in court, get a lawyer -- > math and logic, especially this long proce, does not seem to go very > far in court. OK, I'll remember that. > I'm not very experienced but I've had the privilege > follow some legal proceedings at close hand. > > Ok, enough said on this subject for me, thanks for an interesting and > amusing debate. > > br Kusti Same to you. Bye :) -- RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek computing expert & GNU Octave developer Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU) Prague, Czech Republic url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
