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Ziff Davis To Website: License To Link, Updated
Rothenberg writes: "Hey! I'm the executive editor in charge of eWEEK.com -- and before this situation unravels any farther, I need to make a couple of quick clarifications about our reprint policy:
While I haven't gotten all the details about what happened, this legal warning to PocketPCTools seems to be a result of miscommunication within our company. We understand and embrace the principles under which sites such as PocketPCTools link to and excerpt our content. There are plenty of occasions when a professional media company needs to question the wholesale appropriation of its content or the use of its marks. From everything I understand about the PocketPCTools case so far, this is NOT one of those occasions!
We're moving to correct the situation now ... PocketPCTools was apparently acting within the appropriate bounds of Web etiquette -- actually, doing us a favor by sending us the traffic -- and Ziff Davis was apparently mistaken in issuing this warning.
My personal apologies to anyone inconvenienced by this error. We're investigating the situation now and will act accordingly."
What are you supposed to do when Slashdot links your smalltime site...you get a ton of hits and suddenly have a huge bill for gigs of transfer...
Meanwhile, the guys at OSDN made $400 or more serving ads on the comment links while your server is a smoldering ruin?
Is it fair for one commercial site to link to another sites content - producing a leech effect - and not compensating the other site for linking?
-Electrawn
Ester Dyson is mainly known as the inventor of the word "vaporware". She was relevant about 20 years ago, but I don't think she's come with anything witty or relevant since.
I think her pitch now is "I knew Bill G and Steve J when they were just starting" kind of thing. I suppose that nets you $25K speaking gigs, but you wouldn't take their advice for anything that involved money...
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
Bullshit you did. I bet you don't even have a subscription you KARMA WHORE!
"Too quick to judge"? I think not: the weaknesses of Slashdot's editorial processes have been there for years. I may not have bothered creating a Slashdot ID until way after you had but I've been reading the site since 1998. In all that time how often do you think these flaws have been pointed out to the Slashdot editorial team (by dozens if not hundreds of people) yet how much have they actually done about it?
As for your first point, well, there are a bunch of us that are way ahead of you. And it's ironic that you call me a grammar-Nazi, because it's the arrogant, condescending and totalitarian attitude of the Slashdot editorial team that's the driving force behind a collaborative effort to form a serious alternative site.
So, you've got it totally wrong on both counts. Even the most polite attempts to communicate with the Slashdot editors is ignored or rebuffed and the situation has gotten so bad for many long-time regulars that they're looking at setting up on their own: the former has forced the latter.
(And, by the way, if pertinent observations, relevant criticisms and honest answers offend you so much then I suggest you look to yourself for answers, because clearly nothing I say or do will provide them for you.)
Lastly, it's interesting to see that this is one of the comparatively few occasions where a totally inaccurate story submission has been edited after the fact. I guess the idea of legal action against them does occasionally frighten the Slashdot editors into activity after all.
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i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.