From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 5 14:41:48 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 6669437B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 14:41:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 4274 invoked by uid 100); 5 May 2001 21:41:45 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15092.29593.612647.836532@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 16:41:45 -0500 To: Brett Glass Cc: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010505153617.049b6130@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010505152137.04add690@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010505095934.04417930@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504213229.043f5460@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504122121.04699dc0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504093633.045b1850@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504091914.0467d5b0@localhost> <15090.43795.549818.410213@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010505153617.049b6130@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 03:26 PM 5/5/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > >With a single exception, you've always advocated against consumers > >rights, and for the publisher. > Not true at all. I am a strong advocate of consumers' rights. Then why don't you start doing it here? > However, when dealing with zealots who believe that they > should be able to pirate anything they want for free, or > that all publishers are evil and should be destroyed, I > will naturally disagree. Gee, that's strange. I'm generally viewed as a strong supporter of commercial interests. But when I faced with people who regularly attack non-commercial groups and publicly advocate their destruction, I naturally disagree. 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