From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 3 22:14:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21638 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 22:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21546; Sun, 3 May 1998 22:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA01948; Mon, 4 May 1998 01:13:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 01:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: Eivind Eklund , Matthew Hunt , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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