Re: What to do if you find that you did business with a spammer?

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote:

> guy keren wrote:
> > since spamming is not _illegal_ in _israel_, it most likely can NOT be
> > used as a valid _legal_ reason to break out of a contract between a
> > _israeli_ person and a _israeli_ company.
> >
> > please do NOT take what i write out of context - the original poster
> > didn't ask about the morality of the issue - he asked about the legality
> > of the issue - and the legality in israel, not in "many countries".
>
> I think it is legal to stop working for someone who is doing something
> unethical or immoral.But if you have a contract and break it, you
> might lose money and/or be sued.I think this issue has never been
> handled in an Israeli court yet.And Israeli courts DO take in account
> similar cases in other countries.
>
> Anyway, if you want to be sure, put a clause in a contract before you
> sign it.It's better that it will be general, and not only about spam.
> It should include any unethical or immoral action.

and lets see you manage to define a general clause that any client will
agree to sign. ("i commit to delivering the project in 6 month time,
unless your company does anything during this period, that i find to be
immoral, even if it has nothing to do directly with me - in such a case,
i'll give you the half-finished material and will be free from completing
the project". in other words "if i fill like it, i'll say that your
selling software as non-free software is immoral in my opinion, and will
leave you after 2 month").

no, i don't think this approach can work.

for the exact same reason, a company cannot fire an employee because he
did something immorla (e.g. they found out he's gay and they are orthodox
jews, or they found out he's a right-winged and lives in a settlement, and
the owners are extremist lef-wingers).

-- 
guy

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 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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