From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 4 11:34: 1 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 7C4CA37B424 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 11:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 13042 invoked by uid 100); 4 May 2001 18:33:54 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15090.62994.434281.492893@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 13:33:54 -0500 To: Brett Glass Cc: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504121932.0464c400@localhost> References: <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> 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 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. Even relative backwater libraries like the one I use have e-book programs in place. 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