On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Hal Kaplan wrote:
> OK Ed. A couple of posts back you wrote "IONAL." I thought that
> meant "I am not a lawyer." I guess I was wrong about that
> particular meaning and that it was not an acronym after all.
Oh. Cute.
No, IANAL does indeed mean that "I am not a lawyer". It does not
mean that my brain is incapable of retaining legal information given
to me by a lawyer so that I can conduct my business well.
Anyone who sells their creative work, such as software writing, for
a living and who hasn't invested a few hundred bucks to sit down with
a knowledgeable copyright attorney is being penny-wise and pound-
foolish. I did that early in my career, and have met with that lawyer
on a couple of occasions since. I write 'IANAL' so that others out
there also get good legal advice, instead of taking my regurgitated
words as anything other than an informed person's understanding.
It is wrong to assert that only lawyers can speak intelligently
about legal matters. IANAMD, but I'll bet you that I can talk a whole
lot more intelligently about the diagnostic differentials for
achalasia than many gastroenterologists. That's not to say that I
know everything about gastroenterology; only that which I've
experienced first-hand. And I first-hand went through 4 different
gastros before I found one who could recognize the condition and
treat it accordingly. In the process I learned an awful lot about
that particular disease, and feel comfortable in my grasp of this
particular condition.
-- Ed Leafe
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