On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:53:31PM +1000, Roger Clarke wrote:
> At:
> http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/num_act/tpa1974149/s4.html#goods
> ""goods" includes ... (d) gas and electricity"
>
> But since one intangible (electricity) is expressly *in*cluded, the
> courts would presumably infer that other intangible things (such
> as data and software) are intended by Parliament to be *ex*cluded,
> because if they were to be within-scope then they should have been
> listed there.
why is software an "intangible"?
for that matter, why are electricity and gas "intangibles"?
the legislation you quote there doesn't seem to define them as such, it
just lists them as explicitly included.
i thought that "intangibles" were things like "good will" and
"reputation", or things that don't have a precise dollar value.
craig
-- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch
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