New Scientist Tries Out Copyleft

uchian writes: "New Scientist has an article about The GPL, open source, and how attempts are being made to apply the philosopy to areas other than software. Little new ground is covered, but it is interesting that the article itself is "Copyleft", so you are free to redistribute, modify and copy as long as long as your derivative work is also copyleft."

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New Scientist not always good guys

[Charles Dodgeson]

I wonder when they will do a piece on spamming. They have been engaging in opt-out spam of UK Universities. It's even been taken up by JANET CERT. Here is an excerpt from a posting from a JANET CERT member

I reported to New Scientist that there had been unfavourable responses to their bulk mailing activity. They have asked if I can tell them particular sites where there were many complaints and they will consider dropping those en masse from their mailing list.

Sorry I can't find any publically accessible archive of the discussion on the UK mail managers' list.