Re: shielding from liability
In your email to me, Dave Cinege, you wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 22:57:29 -0500, Paul Serice wrote:
>
> >john@win.bright.net wrote:
> >>
> >> Paul Serice writes:
> >> > Suppose, Bruce is "going to drive tomorrow to Santa Cruz (from
> >> > Berkeley) to participate in a meeting for Debian," and on the way
> >> > he causes an accident. Before incorporation, no one knew how far
> >> > the liability tail extended.
> >>
> >> Are you an attorney? I'm not. I find it hard to believe that there
> >> is no case law on this.
> >
> >I'm looking here through Prosser on Torts regarding the "Joint
> >Enterprise." It states as follows:
>
> As Barron's contains no defination we look to Webster (as a court would)=
> :
>
> Main Entry: en=FAter=FAprise
> Pronunciation: 'en-t&(r)-"prIz
> Function: noun
> Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Old French entrepren=
> dre to
> undertake, from entre- inter- + prendre to
> take -- more at PRIZE
> Date: 15th century
> 1 : a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, =
> or risky
> 2 : readiness to engage in daring action : INITIATIVE
> 3 a : a unit of economic organization or activity; especially : a busine=
> ss
> organization b : a systematic purposeful activity
> <agriculture is the main economic enterprise among these people>
>
> Show me the risk of a free venture. Show me the business orginazation, b=
> efore
> Debian Inc. was formed. Show me the money! There was none before, and th=
> at was
> why what you just quoted would never have applied to the Debian maintain=
> ers.
> They had no collective assests!
It's very convenient that you just didn't see:
b : a systematic purposeful activity
"The Debian Project" was around long before SPI.
Tim
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