- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:47:15 -0400 (EDT)
- To: elharo@metalab.unc.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
- Cc: jcowan@reutershealth.com (John Cowan), xml-dev@lists.xml.org, xml-editor@w3.org
Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit: > I'll listen to arguments about justice for people. I find arguments > about justice for mainframes to be laughable. What's next? Justice > for cell phones? Justice for Apple IIs? Justice for PDP-11s? Justice > for weed whackers? Give me a break. People use mainframes, and XML too. If XML 1.0 had insisted that only CR-LF and LF were acceptable line terminators, don't you think an argument based on justice for Mac users would have been appropriate? You mention the legal principle of "stare decisis". This is by no means applied in every area of the law, and in particular gives way before claims of natural equity. It is *not* always more important that the law be unchanging than that it do justice or right. "It is intolerable to have no better reason for a legal rule than that *thus* it was laid down in the time of King Henry the Second." -- John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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