<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Critchfield</b> <<a href="mailto:critch@basesys.com">critch@basesys.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:03 -0600, Robert A. Thompson wrote:<br><br>You do not send $1.00, it is actually supposed to be payed to you(I<br>believe). It was explained to me at one time that the contract that you<br>are signing doesn't have as much standing if there wasn't some form of
<br>valuable item exchanged. The $1.00 is the valuable item that helps the<br>legal system determin that this is a valid and enforceable contract. The<br>$1.00 also does not really make or break Digium or you.</blockquote>
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I note that this has been a dollar since at least the 1940s, so at one
time, it was a reasonable amount for a basic contract. A lovely
dissection of this contractual compensation issue is in Richard
Feynman's "I want my dollah" story where he ultimately dispenses with
the proceeds from his patents on the nuclear airplane and nuclear
rocket...<br>
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I've often wondered if the copyright assignments to the FSF for example
were legal as they did not include the dollar... And I do wish this
"formality" had been indexed for inflation.<br>
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I note as a complete aside that seeing this conversation go by gave me
an idea for vmail - vmail via RSS. Anybody tried doing that? <br>
</div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mike Taht<br>PostCards From the Bleeding Edge<br><a href="http://the-edge.blogspot.com">http://the-edge.blogspot.com</a>