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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:03:02 -0400, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

If someone was allergic to nuts, and they are going around eating peanuts  
because technically they aren't nuts, I'd say they were in fact nuts :)

I'd be hugely hugely surprised if any jury awarded a judgement based on  
that.

-Steve