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

[Sergey Gromov]

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:09:21 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> 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.

I'd expect an allergic person to be very well aware of what's dangerous
to them, and therefore to know exactly the difference between nuts and
peanuts.  People tend to know a lot of things in the areas of their
interest, for whatever reasons the interest is.