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All of these miscommunications are not a problem ultimately because this is the nature of communication. And lawyers especially know this. The rule is silly b
by unishark 6y ago
All of these miscommunications are not a problem ultimately because this is the nature of communication. And lawyers especially know this.
The rule is silly because the idea was silly from the start. Some companies got themselves in trouble in the news due to their work emails. Let's pay someone (too much money) to establish some rules. That overpaid person now has to come up with something to justify getting that money. Result: a bunch of silliness and common sense wrapped up in a new training hassle for everyone.
- compiler-guy 6y agoExcept that people really do lose lawsuits based on the lawyer's misinterpretation of what they say. The classic line from the Google-Oracle suit where a Google engineer says, "We need to license java" cost them millions of dollars in litigation, and some felt it was the smoking gun. Rules that forbid such statements in the future aren't common sense, and make a lot of sense from a legal and financial perspective, annoying though they may be.