On Sat, October 27, 2012 6:39 pm, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
it helps to know that lee is a lawyer.
Actually, Lee is a software engineer with over 25 years of experience. At one point in his career he worked for almost 9 years at Novell, during its heyday, writing software for web servers and other web services. He has contributed code to the Netscape/Sun/Oracle web server, the Apache web server, the Tomcat servlet engine, and the HTML Tidy project. He was also invited by the IDPF to participate as an invited expert in the development of the original ePub container format. A few years after graduating law school, and being admitted to the state bars of California and Idaho, Lee abandoned the practice of law when he realized that lawyers focused almost exclusively on winning, and almost never on getting to the truth; a young, idealistic lawyer has no place in this system. Lee is no longer licensed to practice law in any jurisdiction (bar associations take a dim view of people who refuse to pay their licensing fees). However, Lee's legal training has enabled him to carefully analyze complex systems, and to recognize and discard irrelevancies, sophistries and fallacies. It enables him to recognize false assertions about legal issues such as contract and copyright law. It also gave him a skin as thick as a rhinoceros, making him virtually immune to ad hominem arguments (sorry Marcello). Hopefully, this sets the record straight.