Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...
Matthew Garrett dijo [Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:33:09PM +0100]:
> > The majority (all!) of license we ship do not demand that you agree
> > *in advance* to waive your usual protections against arbitrary
> > lawsuits in exotic courts.
>
> Why does the "exotic courts" aspect actually make any significant
> difference? Are you honestly asserting that the cost of me travelling
> to, say, Finland is going to be large compared to the costs of hiring a
> lawyer to defend me?
In my home country, I can get advice from any lawyer I know and
trust - I will probably pay, but probably I can get somebody who will
not rip me too much. If I have to pay for a Finnish lawyer who knows
Finnish law (and I might only talk Tagalo - Probably no Finnish
lawyers speak Tagalo!), well... you see, it is a bit unfair to me, as
I have no means of defending myself!
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