Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> I think it's more the legal costs than the costs of losing. You can 
>> spend a million bucks on lawyers to win a $100K lawsuit, sadly.
> 
>   At least here if you have insurance (which pays for the consulting fees)
> and you win, you don't pay a dime. (Your opponent pays your lawyer's fees.)
> 
>   OTOH if you lose you pay everything (your own lawyer fees as well as
> your opponent's lawyer fees, plus of course the possible sanctions). It's
> a risk not too many people are ready to take.

OK. Sounds like other countries really haven't solved this any better 
than the US has.  Except other countrys' corporate citizens aren't quite 
as assholish as the US's. ;-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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