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- From: 841613t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Don Tyzuk)
- Subject: Re: New Arcadia/IRUS AFLEX-AYACC release
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.112656.7973@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Organization: Acadia University
- References: <1993Jan7.075406.6948@sei.cmu.edu> <79378@hydra.gatech.EDU> <EACHUS.93Jan7193852@goldfinger.mitre.org> <1993Jan8.080230.22934@sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 11:26:56 GMT
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- firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
-
- >I forget but you can look it up. The distributor was a pharmaceutical
- >company that gave free sample of its products to doctors as a means
- >of advertising them. When one of them killed a patient, the company
- >argued just that - there was no implied warranty because no sale.
- >They lost. The issue is not whether you charge for the product, but
- >the fact that you distribute it.
-
- I also do not play a lawyer on t.v., but I pretend I am one
- in arguments that don't belong here anymore... :-)
- But, that won't stop ME from adding to it!
-
- The pharmaceutical company is in the business of selling the
- product. There is a business relationship there, even if the
- company gives away the sample.
-
- The distribution of GNU (and similar work) is the publication
- of an academic work. If I write a paper on how to achieve
- cold fusion in a snowbank, and you try it and it doesn't work:
- then you are simply reading my shoddy research and trying to
- replicate the results.
-
- I would say that distribution of this software is simply
- publication of academic work.
- --
- don.tyzuk@acadiau.ca
-