On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a matter of principle, I try to only post short excerpts with links. I
> know plenty of writers, and all of them, like the rest of us, have to eat.
> And if someone finds an article interesting enough to read, they should also
> be willing to endure the minor annoyance of advertising that makes the whole
> enterprise possible.
Yeah, I definitely agree, and think that when writers and readers scream at each other over intellectual property, they need to stand back and look at why markets don't let them easily fund freely-distributable knowledge... They're each right and wrong, so it often gets really ugly.
(Blocking ads is a real issue. After all, a big part of socialism is about workers being compensated for their labor. But then again, ads are used to compile huge databases on you, and these companies are laughably bad at keeping your private info secure.)
But just so I wouldn't embarass myself too much earlier, I made sure to check that people on this mailing list recently did reprint whole articles, without being called on it. ;)
And I have to admit... if I were in Michael Albert's shoes, would I necessarily act differently? I don't know what his job is like, but maybe I'd come up with all sorts of justifications to do as he does...
All the best, Tj
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour <tjg at pentaside.org>wrote:
>
> do members of this mailinglist ask
>> permission when reprinting someone's entire article, publicly
>> archiving it? (Or maybe I'm missing something?)
>>
>
> As a matter of principle, I try to only post short excerpts with links. I
> know plenty of writers, and all of them, like the rest of us, have to eat.
> And if someone finds an article interesting enough to read, they should also
> be willing to endure the minor annoyance of advertising that makes the whole
> enterprise possible.
>
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> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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