“Whatever may be the case in a Court of morals, there is no legal obligation on the vendor to inform the purchaser that he is under a mistake, not induced by the act of the vendor.”

— Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn

Smith v. Hughes (1871), L. R. 6 Q. B. 607.

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British judge 1813–1896

Jeanne W. Ross (1958) American computer scientist

Natalia Levina and Jeanne W. Ross (2003) "From the vendor's perspective: exploring the value proposition in information technology outsourcing." MIS quarterly p. 331

“It is not the function of a Court of justice to enforce or give effect to moral obligations which do not carry with them legal or equitable rights.”

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913) Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, politician and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Blackburn, Low & Co. v. Vigors (1887), L. R. 12 Ap. Ca. 543.

“Here's a reminder on accepting Christmas gifts from vendors: don't.”

Thomas Watson, Jr. (1914–1993) American businessman and diplomat

Watson Jr. (Dec 8, 1959) cited in: IBM (1988) Thirty years of management briefings, 1958-1988. p. 13.

“It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.”

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894) British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician

The Queen v. Instan (1893), L. R. 1 Q. B. [1893], p. 453.

“The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing."”

Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist

It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.

“There is no higher principle for the guidance of the Court than the one that no act of Courts should harm a litigant and it is the bounden duty of Courts to see that if a person is harmed by a mistake of the Court he should be restored to the position he would have occupied but for that mistake.”

Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992) 11th Chief Justice of India

Full Court Reference in Memory of The Late Justice M. Hidayatullah

“So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said 'no, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.”

Theo de Raadt (1968) systems software engineer

Quoted in

“People who make excuses for or actively advocate closed-source OSs and network software (and yes, Apple/iOS fanboys, I’m looking at you) are not merely harmlessly misguided cultists. They are enemies of liberty – enablers and accomplices before the fact in vendor schemes to spy on you, control you, and imprison you. Treat them, and the vendors they worship, accordingly.”

Eric S. Raymond (1957) American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement

Cisco provides a lesson http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4441 in Armed and Dangerous (5 July 2012)

“Hardware donations do not come from vendors who use OpenSSH on parts of their stuff. They come from individuals. The hardware vendors who use OpenSSH on all of their products have given us a total of one laptop since we developed OpenSSH five years ago. And asking them for that laptop took a year. That was IBM.”

Theo de Raadt (1968) systems software engineer

Quoted in Staying on the cutting edge, Varghese, Sam, 2004-10-08, 2007-01-10, The Age http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html,

“…he became one with his Chinese parishioners, announcing a trade as honest as that of the dentist, the seller of rice-wine, the brothel-keeper, the purveyor of quack rejuvenators and aphrodisiacs, or the vendor of shark’s-fin strips.”

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer

Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)

“Whatever may be the case in a Court of morals, there is no legal obligation on the vendor to inform the purchaser that he is under a mistake, not induced by the act of the vendor.”

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