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Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe



On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:25:49PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:58:53PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> >> Then how can things like thepiratebay.org be legal?
> >> >
> >> > They aren't with any degree of certainty.
> >> 
> >> It's certain enough that Microsoft have failed to shut them down.
> >
> > They haven't tried. All Microsoft have done to them so far is send
> > them some nastygrams in the mail.
> 
> And for some reason you believe Microsoft would be content with that,
> if they believed they had any real chance to stop them?

It's sheer hubris to think that Microsoft cares about this
site. There's a million others like it and one more doesn't make much
difference. Pursuing it would merely use up time which their lawyers
could instead have spent eroding our civil liberties.

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