From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 5 1:21:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 132C937B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 01:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 30399 invoked by uid 100); 5 May 2001 08:21:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15091.47125.871395.53949@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 03:21:41 -0500 To: Brett Glass Cc: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504213138.00cf9c80@localhost> 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> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504213138.00cf9c80@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass types: > At 12:33 PM 5/4/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > >Brett Glass 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. In other words, you admit it's a non sequitor. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message