Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 21:32:22 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504213138.00cf9c80@localhost> In-Reply-To: <15090.62994.434281.492893@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504121932.0464c400@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504093633.045b1850@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504091914.0467d5b0@localhost> <15090.43795.549818.410213@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504121932.0464c400@localhost>
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At 12:33 PM 5/4/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> types: >> At 09:42 AM 5/4/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >> >No, I'm being realistic. Publishers doing ebooks are reserving >> >providing licenses that disallow long-established practices. >> "E-books" aren't popular with libraries anyway, because they >> would have to loan out the players. > >Non sequitor. They don't have to loan out the players any more than >they have to for VHS cassettes. Far more people have VCRs than e-book players. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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