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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!metro!mama!greyham From: greyham@research.canon.oz.au (Graham Stoney) Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI & Our Retaliation Message-ID: <Bswo86.6xu@research.canon.oz.au> Sender: news@research.canon.oz.au Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia References: <1992Aug5.224337.6733@cirrus.com> <1992Aug10.225150.29474@unislc.uucp> <21557.Aug1119.27.5092@virtualnews.nyu.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:52:53 GMT Lines: 19 In article <1992Aug10.225150.29474@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes : > As to your theory that there is no enforceable contract without > "consideration", that's all it is - a theory. Sorry, but this is not correct. In virtually all countries with legal systems derived from or similar to the English (eg: USA, Australia, most others), a contract is valid only if there is some consideration; although some places have laws that may treat special types of contract differently. This is not some handwavy theory; a contract I signed a couple of months back was not binding on me for exactly this reason, and that was what the legal advice I got at the time said. Graham -- Graham Stoney | "a Perl script is correct if it's halfway Flip Dibner fan club, "Hi Flip!" | readable and gets the job done before your Ph: +61 2 805-2909 Fax: -2929 | boss fires you." L. Wall & R. Schwartz