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umisef wrote: @Lou Quote: As for the "Oct" date on Olaf's contract... Isn't it obvious that "discussions" are made before contracts are signed. But that would mean discussion were had (and a contract drafted) for getting sources from Olaf *before* the OS4 contract was signed. Which makes saying "but oh, we expected to get these from AI" in 2007 somewhat disingenuous.

Again a snippet is taken and crtiqued. Hyperion didn't sign it until after they signed the OS4 contract, so all is well.

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Quote: Contracts are effective when all parties have signed them, not when they are drafted. If you sign a document which says that "On this n-th day of month X, we do ABC", and it isn't the n-th day of month X, you need to either make that damn clear somewhere (like scribbling a different date over it, as seen in the OS4 contract), *or* accept that for all intents and purposes, the n-th day of month X was when you signed it.

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I forget the exact wording, but atleast a psuedo-deadline was established that indirectly defined the contract as active upon signature. I never said this contract was perfect nor did I dispute and critques of Ben's legal drafting skills.