In Portugal, e.g., the law makes it impossible for you to accept a contract in which you give up on a legal right you have, so that if you have the right to court for some reason, a contract in which you agree NOT to go to court for that reason is automatically null.
One should agree that the land of freedom still has a long way to go.
Too bad that you consider 25 mpg a low fuel consumption. In Europe, any vehicle going less than 30 mpg is considered to drink a lot of gas.
Current family sedans and minivans can do from 40 to 50 mpg with diesel fuel (something between 5l/100km and 6l/100km). And if you were to put them driving at 55mph, it would certainly improve this value...
> And why couldn't someone sue the Mozilla Corporation and/or Foundation in the same circumstances?
Probably because a) It's not a multi billion corporation with deep pockets and b) Because probably, being free, the application gives no warranties about the correctness of its phishing detection system, whereas c) In an American court, you can demand compensation for almost about everything, if you paid for a service; but if you didn't, probably you can't.
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In Portugal, e.g., the law makes it impossible for you to accept a contract in which you give up on a legal right you have, so that if you have the right to court for some reason, a contract in which you agree NOT to go to court for that reason is automatically null. One should agree that the land of freedom still has a long way to go.
I suppose they could threaten them with a batch of their own patents, say something like "mouse click", "graphical interface", ...
So you do get 3.14. Or, more preciselly, [2007.]3.14, but you can skip the first part.
Too bad that you consider 25 mpg a low fuel consumption. In Europe, any vehicle going less than 30 mpg is considered to drink a lot of gas.
Current family sedans and minivans can do from 40 to 50 mpg with diesel fuel (something between 5l/100km and 6l/100km). And if you were to put them driving at 55mph, it would certainly improve this value...
> And why couldn't someone sue the Mozilla Corporation and/or Foundation in the same circumstances?
Probably because a) It's not a multi billion corporation with deep pockets and b) Because probably, being free, the application gives no warranties about the correctness of its phishing detection system, whereas c) In an American court, you can demand compensation for almost about everything, if you paid for a service; but if you didn't, probably you can't.