Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:25:01 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: favor Message-ID: <200502070925.02289.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <399973539.20050207171622@wanadoo.fr> References: <200502061420.24415.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <20050207161015.GH21722@thingy.apana.org.au> <399973539.20050207171622@wanadoo.fr>
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On Monday 07 February 2005 08:16 am, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > David Gerard writes: > > DG> That would sorta suck. I know I write my questions and answers > with DG> a view to them being searchable on the web maybe months or > years DG> later, as I know how very grateful I am to those whose > archived DG> words have helped me before. > > Having to search an archive of e-mail messages as a substitute for > real support sucks to begin with. I've almost never found anything > useful when searching the archives, and even when I have, it takes > longer to find it in the archives than it does to just ask the > question again. If you want "real" support, that costs money, and it doesn't matter if you're talking about BSD, Linux, Windows, Solaris, etc. > DG> So it helps the copyright situation, but breaks the usefulness of > DG> any archive. > > The copyright situation is an unavoidable legal mandate, not an > option. You cannot defend against an infringement action by saying > that respecting copyright would have been inconvenient for you. Again, what are the damages? - jt
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