Re: Overwhelmed

From: kurttrail (dontemailme_at_anywhereintheknownuniverse.org)
Date: 05/05/04


Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 17:35:29 -0400

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:

> OK I'll bite, last one tho I proimise ;-)
>
>> Sorry, I won't go. I'm nearsighted but I'm starting to have problems
>> reading with my glasses on. I ain't gonna have no optician try and
>> prescribe me bifocals! :)
>
> lol comes to us all fella. That, death and taxes I guess <g>
>
>> Huh? I saw no such pointing in this thread.
>
> Yeah you're right, though a URL was punted out briefly
>
>> Naw! As long as people like you keep replying, there is alway a
>> point to make.
>
> Well, whatever dude.
>
>>> I guess fyi, this buy-in you talk about is based on uninformed
>>> speculation,
>>
>> No it's not. From an individual consumers point of view, any
>> copyrighted
>
> Sorry, I thought you were implying I'd bought in to DRM (unlikely as
> an artist being paid more than a fraction of their dues by a record
> company)
>
>> "Any individual may reproduce a copyrighted work for a "fair use";
>> the copyright owner does not possess the exclusive right to such a
>> use." - http://laws.findlaw.com/us/464/417.html
>
> Agree.
>
>> LOL! Real Player! I'll stick with formats that aren't proprietary.
>
> OK but the real situation is, real have thrown open helix producer
> source code, so its definitely a step in the right direction if not
> actually a GNU licence. Still to see Apple or MS open-blah
> initiaitives reach actual source-code levels.
>

I was aware of that. Thanks for the info.

>>> One final point I guess 'MS' newsgroups are the same as any other
>>> newsgroup, just a distributed nntp discussion which has no link to
>>> any sponsoring organisation. So Yah, that blows, huh ?
>>>
>>
>> ROFL! While MS offers no formal support in these PUBLIC groups, the
>> do censor the hell out of them. Also MS hosts these groups on their
>> own web
>
> I've never been censored, and I hold some pretty inflammatory
> (possibly heretical) opinions LOL. I track each post I put up and they
> haven't disappeared. Once it's out on the nntp servers it's
> distributed for keeps - google groups is also a nice archive if the
> unthinkable happens.

I have, way too many times. I post through MS's servers most of the time,
so sometimes mine get pulled before it is distributed further. MS is just
wasting time and money though, because I just repost through Google, or my
ISP nntp server. Then it's gets pulled again, but then I post the link to
it at Google, and then there ain't much they can do about posting a link.

>
> Ciao, presumably, for now.

Auf Wiedersehen.

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