From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 13 10:40:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8253837B71A for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02950; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:39:48 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010313113720.00dea140@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:39:41 -0700 To: Craig Harding , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again In-Reply-To: <3AADC096.DE27817@outpost.co.nz> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010311235053.00e26140@localhost> <20010305205030.G80474@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305125259.00cfdae0@localhost> <20010305142108.A17269@marx.marvic.chum> <4.3.2.7.2.20010306011342.045fb360@localhost> <20010306081025.A22143@marx.marvic.chum> <4.3.2.7.2.20010306092612.00b79f00@localhost> <20010306174618.N32515@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010311230800.00e19bd0@localhost> <15020.28993.192354.986367@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010311235053.00e26140@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010312223234.0445f3a0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:39 PM 3/12/2001, Craig Harding wrote: >Actually, no, King's experiment has gone wrong, and much of the blame >lies with the specific implementation he devised. King's effort did better than he (or I!) expected. Remember that King was walking into a war, in which those who demanded that all content be given to them for free (a la Stallman) were already committed to taking no prisoners. Considering this, King did extremely well. Many readers were ethical and did pay. --Brett GLass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message