eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) (02/25/90)
followups to misc.legal and news.admin. In article <537@kos.rci.dk> fk@kos.rci.dk (Fleming Kraglund) writes: |eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes: | ||i find it ironic that a 3com employee would slam one company and ||recommend another, as Norman does below. i made a similar recommendation ||regarding 3com ethernet cards and those of its competitors, and ||was promptly threatened with legal action by one of 3com's whining | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ||marketing twits who reads the net. my recommendation may have been ||a bit cruder than Norman's, and was less detailed. oh well... | |Isn't that illegal. i don't think it's illegal to threaten legal action... after all, you can sue someone over just about anything in this great land of ours! |If I (and I mean me [or at least the write of the article]) thinks |that a certain product dosn't deserve recommendation, but rater a |warnning, ain't I free to say so?. (free speach and friends) you certainly are, as was i. of course, 3com's marketing twits are free to threaten me with legal action, as well. it's a free country for them, too. the bottom line is that they could bankrupt me without batting as much as a legal eyelash, even if i did win in court. i could countersue for damages, and i might get my legal fees returned in a few years, long after i'm financially hosed by all the court costs. |And if they really want to threaten you to shut up, there's something |wrong somewhere you got that right. and i think i know where! |Flemming Kraglund |-- | fk@rci.dk (I hate .sig files) how do you feel about disclaimers, Flemming and misc.legal.eagles??? i don't believe usenet disclaimers can actually indemnify anyone personally, or indemnify site administration from legal action. it might help in court, but how is it going to stop a lawsuit??? -- /* eli@spdcc.com ; 617-932-5598 */ /* Plan B from Outer Space */