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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I find it interesting that the response to a lawyer's unofficial but professional opinion about a legal </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>ruling is disagreement and "are you deliberately trolling here?".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>This would be kinda like a lawyer asking me if I were deliberately trolling when I provide unofficial </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>(because you aren't paying me for my services) but professional opinion about how a SOAP</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> based</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>web service implementation may not be as rosy a vendor makes it out to be based on my own</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>experience with interoperability issues with SOAP-based web service stacks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>The lawyer is certainly welcome to have an opinion about SOAP, SOA, etc and I would assume </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>they </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>are intelligent but I </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>would wonder whether the basis of their opinion is more than reading white </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>papers, vendor </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>propaganda and the blog posts of other SOA developers...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would certainly be less inclined to post again on a lawyer mailing list about legal software </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>packages populated by mostly lawyers and not developers...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>My layperson perspective (based on news articles and...heh...blog posts of real lawyers)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>on the most recent rulings (MDY v. Blizzard, Jacobsen v. Katzer, etc) is I find that since the 9th </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Circuit MAI v. Peak </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>ruling </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>the courts have </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>been allowing software copyright holders more and more </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>rights beyond what </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>I understand other </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>copyright holders enjoy. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't see this as a good thing.</FONT></DIV>
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