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Wed Sep 3 13:17:59 EDT 2003 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-September/205998.html

Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote previously:
|There are legal reasons: Perhaps the software will be found to violate
|a patent, or infringe copyright.  Perhaps it will be judged to violate a
|DMCA-type law.  Perhaps a new "software defects" law will be impossible
|for free software to conform to (for instance, due to a requirement that
|the software developer post a bond against damages caused by defects in
|the software).

Yeah... and perhaps the word 'disingenuous' will be removed from future
editions of popular dictionaries; and then we will lack a concise way to
describe "special pleading" of this sort.  I think it's unlikely though.

Yours, Lulu...

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