On 10/1/06, Arnoud Engelfriet <arnoud@engelfriet.net> wrote:
I suppose you could be equally conspicuous with boldface or differently colored text. The problem is, as far as the lawyers are concerned, all caps seems to work just fine. Why use something different? At best, the court will rule it's just as good as all caps. At worst, they'll say you deviated from common industry practice, which confuses consumers, and therefore your disclaimer was *not* conspicuous.
However, ASCII does not have a code for bold, nor a code for colours. Without all caps it's a bit hard to emphasise plain ASCII text. If the license was always in a word processed doc it would be OK, but that's not always the case. -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - ajdlinux@jabber.org.au GPG - hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0x5D4C0C58 ------------------------------- Member of Linux Australia - http://linux.org.au Debian user - http://debian.org Get free rewards - http://ezyrewards.com/?id=23484 OpenNIC user - http://www.opennic.unrated.net