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Story: EU lawmakers threaten open source
Posted by: Arthur B. (Monday 1 August 2005, 11:03 PM)
The BSA would be just one party delighted to add this to their bags of tricks to "motivate" people and organizations to simply agree to their "proposal" or else run the risk of fighting it out in court.
Thing is that many people know how to play poker but many people forget even basic poker rules when the stakes are getting high enough. Ever seen someone giving up with four of a kind of kings in hand when the pot is at EUR 4? Ever seen someone giving up with four of a kind of kings in hand when the pot is at EUR 60000 and the other guys says: I raise EUR 60000? I know this. A guy with a year income less then EUR 60000 is more likely to crumble then then a guy with a year income of EUR 600000000.
In the courts you can't see the other guys cards before you decide to call their bluf either. So many decide not to risk it and count their loses before even going to court. And those you don't read about in the papers. In all the ones you do read about in the papers are 1 in 10, 1 in 100, 1 in a 1000 maybe?
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