Eric S. Raymond on GPL and BSD licenses. & Microsoft coming to Linux

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Steven Schveighoffer
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:00:02 -0400, Yigal Chripun <yigal100 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> people in the US sued MacDonald's because their coffee was hot (and they
>> even won the case!). other people sued a company since their peanuts
>> contains nuts.
> [...]
> Other examples of lawsuits are definitely frivolous.  If that peanut case is
> true, I'd use that one instead (it sounds too ridiculous to be true, I'd
> appreciate a citation).

Peanuts aren't actually nuts, you know.  They're legumes.  So there
might well be a case where the lable said "100% peanuts" and someone
allergic to nuts ate up, knowing that peanuts aren't in fact nuts.

--bb