[Gllug] M$ and Netscape/AOL/Time Warner settle for $750m

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh Doug Winter on Monday 02 June 2003 1:41 pm:
> On Mon 02 Jun Jim Bailey wrote:
> > Wake up and smell the coffee people MS, AOL, Time Warner, MPAA, RIAA,
> > Trusted Computing, Intel etc.  They are all the beast none of these
> > people are your friends.
>
> Well, strictly speaking they aren't even people.

A common misconception! Strictly speaking, they are all 'people': a company is 
no more than a group of people acting (nominally) together. There is (for 
instance) no part of 'Microsoft' that is not ultimately owned by identifiable 
individuals, so nothing of Microsoft to which to apply any other label than 
'people'.

I can't remember about UK law, but US law certainly defines Person to include 
a legally constituted companies, and uses 'Individual' to exclude more than 
one person.

More crap than you ever wanted to know. That's the Alistair Mann promise!
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Alistair Mann
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