RE: [PHP4BETA] Professional PHP by Schumann

DN>> Guns are lethal weapons. So are kitchen knives. In fact, I don't know how in US, but in Russia AFAIK kitchen knife is the most used (and, therefore, most lethal) weapon known to the man so far. DN>> If I buy a gun and kill someone with it. Whom should be DN>> prosecuted? Me or the gun manufacturer or both? Your rifle is only a tool. It's a hard heart that kills. (C) Full Metal Jacket DN>> As after all its the guns fault. If it did not exist I couldn't DN>> have used it. DN>> DN>> Plus if I didn't shoot that guy someone else could have got a DN>> gun and done it. DN>> DN>> Hopefully that analogy explains. :) All analogies are false, as we know. Current patent system is more a bad-reputation dark street, where you see some dangerously looking stranger which is reaching in his pocket and pulling out something dangerously like a gun. And when you remember the yesteray's "Thistown Weekly" headline about "15 killed last week on the streets", what you are going to do now for your life? -- Stanislav Malyshev stas@zend.com +972-3-6139665