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Re: Fair Use When Referring to Book Answers?

by Macphisto (Hermit)
on Nov 21, 2000 at 02:54 UTC ( [id://42621]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Fair Use When Referring to Book Answers?

Macphisto walks through the monestary attempting to avert his eyes at every step as his beloved perlmonks, his last bastion of true coders/hackers, slowly but surely, turns into slashdot.

I'm not saying slashdot is a bad thing. It's a great source of news and information ( and keeping an eye out for CowboyNeal's scrathing records ), but I can't stand to read the posts because more and more they become about posturing and people with unrelenting ego's thinking they are 100% correct.

While I really liked redmist's ( our own Erol Flynn ) reply,as well as some others ( For once, I actually agreed with tilly that perhaps the initial idea of copyright is the dissemination of knowledge, but I still feel it has become about money. ) I was dismayed as I came to the last post and saw a relative lack of information. A lot of people have posted what they 'feel' nobody has taken the time to do a search for what the law says so we can get a bottom line, or perhaps posted a good clean article on the 'ethics' of posting the others work. If I wasn't leaving for work I'd take the time to do it myself and perhaps it'll be on my list of things to do tonight.

I didn't like, merlyn's post and --'d it because it gave no support for why it was 'wrong' as well, it seemed like a territorial pissing to me. Just in my opinion, others, possibly Randal himself saw it otherwise.

But please, as of late I've seen a lot more posturing on perlmonks and I know a lot of people don't want to this place turn into /. Heck, even I was voted down by Ovid because I cursed once in an early post 6 months ago, and it was explained that we were attempting to stay away from the the /. stigma. I completely agree with that view.

This probably would have served best if I made this its own thread, but I've already started typing...so what the hey...

regards, macphist0


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