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From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Please boycott Xircom
Message-ID: <14121@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 90 15:16:35 GMT
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In article <14568@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens) writes:
>In article <5DN%9T*@rpi.edu>, faatzd@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Don Faatz) writes:
>> 	As a community that benefits greatly from the efforts of people like
>> Russ Nelson - we should STRONGLY support his position.
>
>	From what I've seen, and from what I know about people, I doubt that
>there was any conspiracy to steal anything. More likely is that they didn't
>even read the conditions applied to it and when the knowledge of their mistaken
>violation finally made it to the right people, they acted honestly and complied
>with the copyright. 

That's what I told the judge, I did'nt *READ* the 35mph speed limit sign....
He threw the book at me.

Ignorance is not a legal defense. When Xircom shipped their first driver, they
entered into that contract, whether they read it or not.

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 John Robert Breeden, 
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