RoadRunner nonsense

[Oren Beck]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Is it ethical to break established de facto practices for self
> serving
> > > > reasons?
> > >
> > > If it was only that I wouldn't really care. Unless I'm mistaken, this
> > > is more than a "de facto" standard, this is a agreed upon standard, ie
> > > spec. This isn't some office format, this is something several
> > > engineers sat down, through about, published, RFCed and then
> > > finalized.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine
> > > ( www.pembo13.com )
> > >
> >
> > Yet RFC to all it's adhocracy cred- still is de facto. Absent a legal
> > precedent elevating RFC above what it presently is. Were RFC considerd
> > actionable to break?  The vulture lawyers would be circling
> comcraptastic's
> > undead corpse.
>
> I think you give too much cred to "legal law". I myself only give this
> level of cred to "natural law". That aside, I would think one's pride
> as a computer scientist or engineer would lead one to consider RFCs
> unbreakable. Being or not being a legal law really seems besides the
> point to me.
>
> --
> Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine
> ( www.pembo13.com )
>

Oh, I and most  of our orbit here have some agreement with your  position.
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.

But the filthy lucre is what drives lawyers and less savory evils to feeding
frenzy.
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?



-- 
Oren Beck

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