[Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).

Thu Nov 8 13:49:50 CET 2012

On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 09:15 +0000, Donald Stewart wrote:
+> On 8 November 2012 00:45, Johnny A. Solbu <cooker at solbu.net> wrote:
+> 
+> > On Tuesday 06 November 2012 23:39, Shlomi Fish wrote:
+> > > Dear sirs or madams,
+> >
+> > To me, this sounds a little to generic, a little to unformal [...]
+
+> > No, this is wrong, you *cannot* use just one, it has to be both. You could
+> have Dear Sir/Madam,  but the correct usage is as originally stated. This
+> is an official letter, and therefore should have the official address to
+> the recipient.
+
+Dear Sir or Madam
+is appropriate (note the capitalization).
+
+You could also be more specific, or, better yet, find out the name of
+the person or people to whom you are writing.
+
+"to ask, whether and how we can"
+should of course be "to ask whether (and how) we can..."
+with the extra comma removed.
+
+There is no such thing as a "definitive legal insight" in the USA. The
+way the law works is that judges (formally called "courts") _interpret_
+the law.
+
+You may, however, ask for advice:
+
+"We would appreciate any advice that you can give to us in this matter."
+
+
+Liam
+
+-- 
+Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
+Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
+Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
+
+-- 
+Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
+Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
+Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
+
+