[linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:23:07PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > But at the same time, I can't really think of a cogent
> > counterarguement that doesn't involve things like "Well, I didn't
> > *intend* that number to be a program..."
> 
> Why is this a problem - intent is very VERY important in law.

Though I am compelled by legal though and legal reasoning, I'm trying
to think of things in an even stricter sense.

I agree that intent is very important in the law, so that's a plenty
good legal argument.

I just always like taking things a step further!

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross at lug.udel.edu

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
	--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37