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Re: One unclear point in the Vim license



On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:15:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > How isn't it?  The above statement in writing is no different in meaning
> > or intent from saying "no thanks" when the person handing you a binary
> > of GCC also offers you the source code.  It's just a lot more
> > formalized.
> 
> Courts are more than able to distinguish between:
> 
> John offers Peter something, and Peter says "no thanks".
> 
> John pretends to offer Peter something, and Peter has to say "no thanks",
>   or else John won't do some nice thing for Peter.

They are?  Maybe I took the outcome of the *first* Microsoft antitrust
trial too seriously, then.  :-P

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Debian GNU/Linux                   |       Biology is really chemistry.
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