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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,misc.forsale,news.admin
Subject: Re: Franchise Opportunity
Summary: Karl Denninger holds a grudge against Brad Templeton. This is news?
Keywords: Commerce, commercial, business, etc
Message-ID: <2819@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 10 Aug 89 13:01:05 GMT
References:  <434@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <1989Aug9.140945.5371@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In article <1989Aug9.140945.5371@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>Some people wanted to restrict the right of others to resell parts of the 
>net that they claimed to be "theirs".  

Still refuse to recognize that rec.humor.funny is Brad Templeton's work?
Or are you too busy hating?

>I was part of a big flap about this,

Actually, you and Matt Crawford _were_ the flap.

>All of you who said "oh, it's ok if  copyrights and sells that 
>group, and it's ok if  posts ads for their book or whatever on 
>the net, even though it's a commercial enterprise" will realize just what 
>you have condoned.  The snowball is rolling downhill, and gathering both 
>size and speed.

*BOGUS CONCLUSION ALERT* *BOGUS CONCLUSION ALERT* *BOGUS CONCLUSION ALERT*

Karl, you use a slippery slope argument without showing how the slope is
slippery. Allowing Brad to protect and redistribute _his work_, in any
form, does not necessaruly lead to the net as advertising medium. Would
you prohibit Dave Barry from selling his column at a profit just because
he published it here first? It's the same thing.

>Personally I don't care anymore.  If it becomes common practice, well, heck, 
>we may as well post our ads to the net too, right?  

I suspect that any site (including ddsw1) which does this outside of
biz.* (which I commend you for supporting) would lose net access if done
repeatedly.


Seriously, though, why do you insist on continuing this vendetta? All
you do is give everyone else the distinct impression of sour grapes.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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