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Re: [wg-c] Unofficial report on L.A. meeting



On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 03:54:53PM -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
> This is simply not true at all. A license can be set, as NSI's is, for a fixed term.
> Such a decision is as easily revocable or reversible as if the license was granted to
> a non-profit.

You are confusing theory and practice.  If you revoke Chris Ambler's
license to run as a for-profit, he will sue.  It doesn't matter what
the merits are, he will fight it tooth and nail.  In fact, he would
have a fiduciary obligation to his stockholders to do so, just as 
NSI has had such an obligation.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain