[License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

[Lawrence Rosen]

John Cowan protested:
> Eh?  [John's father] was paid by the semester by the New Jersey taxpayers.

> His articles weren't paid for at all.  Are you googling the wrong Tom
Cowan?

Unfortunately I didn't Google at all. I just did Google that name, though,
and found one of his name, also a lawyer, who was "indicted for tax
evasion"!  I only remembered you mentioning your father's profession before
and assumed, based on my experience with you, that your father was no slouch
as a lawyer. I assumed he earned his fees.

Obviously taxpayers pay lawyers by the word. Why else are statutes and
regulations and law professors' articles so prolix?

/Larry


-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at mercury.ccil.org] 
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:05 PM
To: Lawrence Rosen
Cc: 'Eben Moglen'; license-discuss at opensource.org; mark.atwood at hp.com;
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Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

Lawrence Rosen scripsit:

> Indeed I wish I were, like your father, paid by the word. ....Or paid 
> by any other measure here....

Eh?  He was paid by the semester by the New Jersey taxpayers.  His articles
weren't paid for at all.  Are you googling the wrong Tom Cowan?

> Thanks for playing Huxley, although the rest of the comparison is inapt. 

I thought you'd say that.  See Asimov v. Bova (Jewish guilt and Italian
guilt), settled out of court.

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