<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Arthur Pemberton <<a href="mailto:pemboa@gmail.com">pemboa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Oren Beck <<a href="mailto:orenbeck@gmail.com">orenbeck@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Arthur Pemberton <<a href="mailto:pemboa@gmail.com">pemboa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Oren Beck <<a href="mailto:orenbeck@gmail.com">orenbeck@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > > Is it ethical to break established de facto practices for self serving<br>
> > > reasons?<br>
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> > If it was only that I wouldn't really care. Unless I'm mistaken, this<br>
> > is more than a "de facto" standard, this is a agreed upon standard, ie<br>
> > spec. This isn't some office format, this is something several<br>
> > engineers sat down, through about, published, RFCed and then<br>
> > finalized.<br>
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> > --<br>
> > Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine<br>
> > ( <a href="http://www.pembo13.com" target="_blank">www.pembo13.com</a> )<br>
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> Yet RFC to all it's adhocracy cred- still is de facto. Absent a legal<br>
> precedent elevating RFC above what it presently is. Were RFC considerd<br>
> actionable to break? The vulture lawyers would be circling comcraptastic's<br>
> undead corpse.<br>
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</div></div>I think you give too much cred to "legal law". I myself only give this<br>
level of cred to "natural law". That aside, I would think one's pride<br>
as a computer scientist or engineer would lead one to consider RFCs<br>
unbreakable. Being or not being a legal law really seems besides the<br>
point to me.<br>
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</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine<br>
( <a href="http://www.pembo13.com" target="_blank">www.pembo13.com</a> )<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Oh, I and most of our orbit here have some agreement with your position.<br>RFC is to the Net what the "Gentleman's Agreement" of better vanished times had been. A matter of literal honor and not crude lucre.<br>
<br>But the filthy lucre is what drives lawyers and less savory evils to feeding frenzy.<br>Does anyone recall when the net was a commerce free zone? I wonder if the gift economy of Burning Man was affected by that past?<br>
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Oren Beck<br><br>816.729.3645