Still no new license -- but draft text available

Tim Peters tim_one at email.msn.com
Thu Aug 3 18:12:28 EDT 2000


[Tim]
> ...
> 5. Licensee agrees that defining the difference between
>    clicking and not clicking is an epistimological impossibility.
>    Licensee further agrees that this clause has always said
>    "epistimological".

[Gordon McMillan]
> Jeez, what does the BDFL annoint his representives with? Defining the
> difference is trivial;

Ha!  Didn't see *you* try to define it just now, did we, Mr. Smarty-Pants
Epistomlogical Troublemaker?

> it's the ascertaining the state of clickedness that presents
> the problem.

If you would really rather hold on to that view than use Python, don't
accept the Benevolent Dictator for Life License.  Clause 5 is what it is,
immutable for all time.

> "Click first, read later" - Gen. Westmoreland
> "I click, therefore I am" - Renee Descartes
> "I am, therefore I click" - Martijn Faassen

"Click cluck, I'm a duck" - Gordon

clarifyingly y'rs  - tim






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