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Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub

Posted Sep 19, 2012 21:51 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub by sorpigal
Parent article: Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub

Almost all elected politicians are lawyers. So are almost all patent trolls.

There is such a thing called 'professional courtesy'.

Unfortunately for the rest of us when it's lawyers in charge of everything things don't tend to work out very well for non-lawyers.

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Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub

Posted Sep 19, 2012 22:38 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

> Almost all elected politicians are bad people. So are almost all patent trolls.
> There is such a thing called 'professional courtesy'.
> Unfortunately for the rest of us when it's bad people in charge of everything things don't tend to work out very well for non-bad people.

There, FTFY 8-) Being educated doesn't make one a bad person.