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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?? |
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 Everyone has their demons....
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