Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 01:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Matthew Hunt <mph@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504011006.20104N-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980504004025.9190B-100000@james.hwcn.org>
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On Mon, 4 May 1998, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > Oh god. Now you're going to argue that information wants to be > free and that no one owns it. Until you suggest a better way of > paying for its production (than the micropayments effected by > advertising), then leave this argument for the philosophers. Why did I know someone was going to say this. Sheehs. Information does not want to be free. > I will attempt to ignore the vitriolic comment, although in > saying so I've already failed. :( The obvious answer is that > you're only stealing if you take something away. In the case of > Lynx, it was never given to you, so you aren't taking it away > (ie. it's the advertiser's responsibility to make sure that their > information is compatible with your software, within reason). In > the case of a delibrate, explicit _ad_removal_ (specifically) > filter, you are intentionally taking away their revenues for > service provided to you. You demonstrate a falwed understanding of how HTML/HTTP works. Anything your browser shows you has been pulled, not pushed. We're talking about software that turns off loading of images that match a specific pattern. This isn't filtering as such. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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