Actually, Gilbert was an attourney [LWN.net]

Actually, Gilbert was an attourney

Posted Jun 4, 2003 18:15 UTC (Wed) by james (subscriber, #1325)
In reply to: Parody: Modern SCO Executive by danny
Parent article: Parody: Modern SCO Executive

It might be worth noting that William Gilbert was an attorney by profession. Many of his works include digs at stupid laws, stupid lawyers, and stupid lawyerese. This is right up his street.

It might be relevant to note that the "pirates" in Pirates of Penzance was aimed at American pirates in the modern, software sense, who, in the days before strong trans-Atlantic copyright protection, made and performed innumerable copies of Gilbert and Sullivan's previous work. The author and composer were not amused.

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Actually, Gilbert was an attourney

Posted Jun 4, 2003 20:56 UTC (Wed) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link]

James wrote:

It might be worth noting that William Gilbert was an attorney by profession. Many of his works include digs at stupid laws, stupid lawyers, and stupid lawyerese.

Most memorably in "Trial by Jury", but also in "The Mikado", "Iolanthe", and (as you say) many others.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com