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....

In reply to Re: Fair Use When Referring to Book Answers? by Macphisto
in thread Fair Use When Referring to Book Answers? by Guildenstern

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