Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Axel Boldt
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:00

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john@dhh.gt.org writes:

> The Microsoft license you refer to is not written into law: it is what
> Microsoft choses to offer and you chose to accept.  You are free to
> negotiate different terms. 

In principle yes; in practice no.

> The same goes for the "work for hire" rule: it
> applies only in the absence of other arrangements.  Your law would deny me
> the right to negotiate any other arrangement with my employer than the one
> the State has decided is best.

Which in principle you may want to do sometimes, but in practice you
would not.

> The right to freely enter into contracts is an essential liberty.

...which mainly benefits those who enter negotiations from a position of
power. It thus tends to amplify pre-existing power differences.

-- 
 Axel Boldt  **  axel@uni-paderborn.de  **  math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/

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From: Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/07
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