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Salon Interviews Bruce Campbell
vonpookie writes "Salon has posted an interview with Bruce Campbell on the subject of his new book Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way, as well as on Tom Cruise, his career, and the realities of the movie biz." From the interview: "Q:Seriously. There was a hilarious interview with Cruise and Spielberg in Der Spiegel recently, reporting that there was a Scientology tent on the set of War of the Worlds, because in between shots Tom wanted to help people kick drugs and alcohol. A: I can believe that. That's fine; it's sort of a way of life for Tom. It's not really a charity. It's more like his religion. Q: He's got a reputation for it! A: Yeah, he's got a reputation for helping people. But my feeling is, 'Shut up and act.'"
"Shut up and learn to act" might be better advice.
And my feeling is that Bruce Campbell's a closet Katie Holmes fan.
"Shut up and act"
"Evil Dead" star Bruce Campbell discusses Tom Cruise, idiot film executives, his hilarious debut novel -- and the joys of not being famous.
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By Scott Thill
July 14, 2005 | There are some people who don't know who Bruce Campbell is, and there are others who will wait hours in line just to get next to him. The 47-year-old actor's uproarious roles in horror films like "Bubba Ho-Tep" and the essential "Evil Dead" franchise -- which he created along with his high school buddy and fellow Michigan native, director Sam Raimi -- have earned him a dedicated cult following. Indeed, legions of aspiring horror-show nuts have followed Campbell and Raimi, who parleyed his own "Evil Dead" accomplishments into a career helming Hollywood blockbusters like the "Spider-Man" movies, ever since the two do-it-yourselfers first decided to produce and shoot their own films instead of waiting for a billionaire studio to discover them.
"It's the old cliché about grabbing the bull by the horns," Campbell says. "There is no mystery to it, just an incredible amount of elbow grease, and most people just aren't built for that."
To be sure, Campbell's road, which has also included stops behind or in front of the camera at other fandom bonanzas like the "Hercules" and "Xena: Warrior Princess" television series, has not led directly to the Emerald City of the Hollywood mainstream. But that's fine by him. In fact, his new, side-splitting exercise in hard-boiled Hollyweird, "Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way," shows just what kind of chaos can emerge when the straight-shooting icon known mostly by his "Evil Dead" alter ego (the actor-author feels compelled to sign his book jacket "Bruce 'Don't Call Me Ash' Campbell") enters the ranks of the Hollywood elite ruled by stars like Richard Gere and Renée Zellwegger.
Unlike his previous autobiographical tour de force, "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor" -- which became a national bestseller to the surprise only of those who haven't seen the "Evil Dead" films -- Campbell's newest book is straight-up fiction, a mash-up of noir action and gut-busting humor centered on the artist's long-awaited jump to the Big Time. In the book, he stars with Gere and Zellwegger in a Mike Nichols update of George Cukor's 1960 Marilyn Monroe vehicle, "Let's Make Love," a movie Gregory Peck abandoned because he famously felt the script was "about as funny as pushing Grandma down the stairs in a wheelchair."
Which, come to think of it, happens to Campbell in his new book, although he's no grandma and it's Richard Gere who eventually does the honors by throwing him down a flight of stairs. Still, that's just a taste of the abuse Campbell undergoes on his quixotic mission to make the A-list. For the entirety of "Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way," its doomed protagonist spends more time getting his ass thoroughly kicked by any number of people rather than doing any actual acting. But perhaps that's the object lesson to be learned in this metafictional exercise in mayhem, which just happens to moonlight as a relationship advice manual of sorts: If you want to make love the Hollywood way, then perhaps you'd better be ready to take a beating.
I caught up with the opinionated and refreshingly honest Campbell by phone from his Oregon home, where he was setting off to visit some local swimming holes before leaving for a four-month promotional tour. It's strange, but besides being one of schlock cinema's enduring supernovas, Campbell is also an environmentalist of sorts; he's currently wrapping up a three-hour documentary called "A Community Speaks," a nonpartisan examination of the thorny issue of land stewardship, which he produced and directed with his wife, costume designer Ida Gearon. (This is especially weird if you remember that this is a guy who starred in a horror classic where an ingénue gets raped by a tree.) But Campbell's tongue is built for more than resting smarmily in his cheek. During our chat, h
that trying to read a Salon article is like going to look at timeshares just to get the free trip?
the only explanation I have is that making love the bruce campbell way somehow involves the left hand...
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The Evil Dead movies, especially Army Of Darkness, are a favorite among nerds. Spawned lots of catchphrases still being used today. Now, what has this to do with Bruce Campbell you say? He was the star of the Evil Dead movies as the chainsaw-and-shotgun wielding Ash Williams. "Good, bad, I'm the one with the gun."
2) What does this have to do with Linux?
Not Linux, BSD: he played in various Evil Dead movies...
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This is news for nerds... Ok... Film nerds, but still nerds.
Just because your particular brand of nerd-dom doesn't care about Bruce Campbell doesn't mean the rest of us are indifferent... I hope!
"Good, Bad, I'm the guy with the gun."
Nothing involving Linux, but a lot of us are fans of Bruce's flicks. He was the prince of thieves in the Xena and Hercules shows, he does a lot of silly things with chain saws, and he's been a hugely popular B movie hero in fantasy and science flicks.
He has no acting range whatsoever, but he's that big lug you want to show up at parties and go on drinking road trips with.
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Would you even be asking this question if it were an article about Harrison Ford's latest book?
Bruce Campbell is a cult film actor. Cult films are generally appreciated by Nerds. This is so because of the often campy, but entertaining, material of the cult films.
In a related subject, Nerds are known to "Geek out" when they see a cult film actor, such as Bruce Campbell, in major films.
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I'm not a horror film fan, but I very much enjoyed Campbells Brisco County Jr. He reminded me of Clint Walker but not quite taking anything seriously. It was a great series.
When the hell did /. turn into a celebrity gossip site? News for nerds? Really?
/. is not a programmer. Some of us nerds have interests and skills beyond pure technology, Linux, and programming.
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what epitomizes film-nerd culture more than the b-movie, and I can think of few more cult actors within b-movies than Bruce "Dont Call Me Ash" Campbell. I'm a massive fan of Campbell and would certainly hope to see news about him on /.
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I mean really, Salon isn't that good of a news magazine. They require payment for mediocre articles, you can't even read the article if you have Norton Ad-Blocker active, their political commentary is out-of-kilter with most of the libertarian Slashdot audience... Why exactly should we care that Salon has a celebrity interview article?
You obviously don't know who Bruce Campbell is.
I'll give you a hint: He's Ash. The Ash.
If you still haven't got it, you're not a nerd, and you are excused.
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Tom Cruise is a bit of a nutbar - no doubt about it - but he is a fascinating, headstrong A-list actor who stirs up controversy and sells copy. His fanatical devotion to Scientology seems to have hurt "War of the Worlds" at the box office (and threatens to cripple his own career) and yet he doesn't even flinch.
Bruce, on the other hand, hasn't really turned the world on it's ear since Army of Darkness. It was that single brilliant movie filmed 20 years ago (give or take - too lazy to find out exactly when) that strangely continues to buoy him to B-list celebrity status.
Good or bad, Tom Cruise pumps out the big Hollywood blockbusters like a tennis ball machine gone evil. He has as much a right to speak about whatever he believes as much as anybody. Bruce should maybe take his own advice and "shut-up and act", or at least stop being such a bloody hypocrite.
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I see a lot of "who the hell is Bruce Campbell?" posts and I'd like to make a few points -
Bruce Campbell is a guy who actively does Q&A with audience memebers. When's the last time you've heard of any multi-million dollar actor do that?
He seems like he's generally a decent guy - he understands his fans make him money, so he treats them with respect & admiration.
He's been in several cult horror films, some of which were actually really good but lacked any A-list actors to be taken seriously.
For those that can't picture who Bruce Campbell is - he was the door guy in Spiderman 2 that didn't let Peter in the theater because he was late.
Lately, he's been in Bubba Ho-Tep, which is another really good movie that didn't garner big box office dollars, but was still incredibly fun to watch. He plays Elvis in a retirement home which is invaded by a mummy, and his best friend (John F. Kennedy) who happens to be african american and has a bag of sand implanted in his head, helps him fend off the evil mummy.
You can't get any better than that.
Did you not ever wonder why a Space Marine carried a chainsaw !
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There is a scene in 'The Color of Money' where Tom Cruise shows up at a pool hall with a custom pool cue in a case. 'What do you have in there?' asks someone. 'Doom.' replied Cruise with a cocky grin. That, and the resulting carnage, was how I viewed us springing the game on the industry.
* John Carmack on why the game was named "Doom"
The game was called "Doom: Evil Unleashed" in early builds
"Evil Dead" is also why Duke Nukem utters the awesome : "Come get some!"
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BC: Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
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Oh come on. A bunch of soundbytes from Duke Nukem is from Bruce Campbell movies.
Just a small aside from whether campbell crunches kernal code, if you have the chance you should watch the 2002 film Bubba Ho-Tep, with Bruce Campbell playing a retired Elvis in a Nursing home. In the film he and a very old JFK have to battle an egyptian mummy, as the tagline says "The King of Rock vs. The King of the Dead". I realise it's an relatively old film to be pimping but it well worth watching whether or not you are a Campbell fan or not as it's incredibly funny, with an extremely poignant ending. http://imdb.com/title/tt0281686/
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It is sad that slashdot focuses on the tabloid side of the interview instead of the surprising stuff: the king of B-grade horror movies has turned out what is supposed to be a really good educational documentary about land management.
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It took me a whole minute to figure out that you were referencing Star Wars with that.
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In fact, I would wonder why a Harrison Ford book was showing up on
That being said, I acknowledge that it doesnt' have to be all computers all the time (hence Harry Potter news making it to the front page).
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"because in between shots Tom wanted to help people kick drugs and alcohol. "
translates:
"because in between shots Tom wanted to help people convert over from drugs and alcohol to scientology."
'Actor Tom Cruise talks about his 20-year membership in the Church of Scientology as he and Director Steven Spielberg discuss the filming of the soon-to-be-released "War of the Worlds." The film, coming out June 29, plays off Americans' fears about terrorism. Spielberg says he has always wanted to direct a "really mean invasion from outer space." Cruise insists, "I just want to help people." '
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What is the point of this seemingly totally random story being posted on slashdot? Most likely, it is to provide a forum for bashing scientology. The editors may be a little leary of posting an anti-scientology story directly (see Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot)
So let the basing begin! It is certainly deserved. I'd like to start by bashing the people who actually sign up for this crap. Like Tom Cruise. I can't think of any surer way to prove you're a flake that to be a scientologist, or perhaps maybe a Wickan. What I seriously wonder if the success of these fake religions reflects more a failing of the American education system, or is this a more basic display of how overrated the average human intelligence is?
This is news for old housewives with subbscriptions to National Enquirer and People. And I could probably count all of them who also read /. on my left hand.
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Tom Cruise is a class act.
I never see him putting others down. Rather than generally make less of someone, he addresses issues (i.e. pyschiatry as the pseudoscience it is, not Brook Shields) and has an interest in helping people (i.e. his work in education via the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, or his aiding of NY fireman post 911 through detoxification centers).
I am a fan of his, so to keep the record straight: War of the Worlds opened with $112.7 million USD domestically over it's 6 day debut and was the best opening of his career and the second best opening of Spielberg's career.
I find his honesty and genuine care for others refreshing. Examining the actual data (see above), we'll see that he isn't hurting his career.
And if Bruce would take a real look as well, which isn't his intention, he would probably realize that he could learn about more than just acting from Tom Cruise.
I'm noticing a disturbing trend here.
One of the reasons I joined Slashdot in the first place (in late 1997) was the wide variety of geek-like interests that CmdrTaco and Hemos held -- from Linux / BSD / UNIX, to Perl, free sw / open source, Python, C, or Java programming, to gaming, to crackers/pirates, to Jon Katz's sometimes-interesting rants on culture, to cult movies, to casemods, to online rights, and a curious & growing interest in Apple (Jobs had just rejoined), etc.
But now there seems to be a lot of geeks that have a real track mind. They don't know classic cult TV or movie heros. They bitch about music / musicians because they're not a kernel mod. They hate TV or movie news (Battlestar sucks, Firefly sucks, Buffy/Angel sucked, Babylon 5 sucked, etc. --- What do you watch, The Weather Channel?).
Basically, all they want to talk shop! It's all about is Linux, or FOSS license pro/cons, or how Apache, MySQL, perl, etc. will somehow create a New Geek World Order.
What happened to the renaissance geek? Where's the passion for the obscure and beautiful, no matter the subject area?
-Stu
The phrase "cult classic" is code for "nerd culture." Bruce Campbell is, literally, the king of cult classicism. Thus..
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Braindead was Jackson's _third_ movie.
Between Bad Taste and Braindead, there was the hilarious little muppets-for-adults movie "Meet the Feebles".
And personally, as fun as Bad Taste is, I don't think it was better than Braindead.
Er.. While I appreciate your valiant defence of Bruce Campbell's acting skills (hail to the king, baby!), I'm pretty sure the parent was refering to Tom Cruise. In the article Bruce mentions that he feels Tom Cruise should "shut up and act". You know, reading TFA once in a while might help that temper thing you've got going there ;)
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'side from all the arguments, good ol 'Bruce also starred in a computer game, "Tachyon: the Fringe" to be exact. And quite honestly, without him making snide remarks as one goes around shooting folks it really isn't all that much of a game...
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Some of us nerds have interests and skills beyond pure technology, Linux, and programming.
That phenomenon must stop, ASAP.
Do you like taking it up the arrse as much as Tom Cruise does?
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So old housewives are fans of the Evil Dead trilogy now? Fuck'n moron.
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Also in the original Blood PC game: http://www.videogamereview.com/cat/pc-games/classi c-pcgames/classic-action/gt-interactive/PRD_81330_ 1460crx.aspx there was at least one line used, "good bad I'm the guy with the gun" when you beat the final boss, But the voice was Clint Eastwood like.
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Ok admittedly I don't get out much and don't have much idea what goes on in that place they call "real life" but I, at least, did not know who Bruce Campbell was and appreciated the clarification.
Then go somewhere else to discuss those interests and skills.
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Definitely not.
We don't need yet another new programming language. Let's just pick an existing language and fix its flaws.
When it comes to being a geek, Bruce Campbell DOES matter. He is brilliant, quirky, hilarious and has produced some of our collectively favorite movies as well as a couple very honest, sincere, well-written books.
I've had the pleasure of meeting the man in real life (he lives in Medford, Oregon) and though I've met a long of noteworthy people, none have been so charming and friendly and unrushed as he was. Bruce Campbell may not be a Tom Cruise, but he has a viewpoint and a way of looking at the entertainment business that would benefit most of today's "hot stars/starlets" to adopt.
Buckaroo Bonzai, Adventures of Brisco County Junior, Evil Dead series... HELLO?! He makes nothing BUT geek films. This is incredibly on-topic for Slashdot. A-fucking-men.
Like the AC said, old housewives don't care about Evil Dead and Bruce Campbell. Particularly the ones who read the National Enquirer and probably People.
That's a pretty bold statement. Nobody here is a programmer? I'd say at least a simple majority are. -todd
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That's completely understandable - what I was picking on in the parent post was the mention of a bunch of "who is this guy" posts. There simply aren't any...
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Be fair. Your post was neither.
It took me a short while to think of it, but I think the alternate title to WotW was Xenu's Revenge, or something like that.
I haven't seen the movie but from what I've heard, Cruise spends most of it running from danger. That's not the Bruce Campbell way. From the Campbell movies I've seen, he takes the approach of the comman man when presented with something scarry. He grabs a gun and blasts a hole in something, preferably an alien.
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Tom wanted to help people kick drugs and alcohol.
Yeah, best of luck with that.
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posted the above, I got pings on my honeypot, from slashdot.org. On ports 3127 and 1026 it tried to fetch the URL http://slashdot.org/ok.txt, User-Agent: libwww-perl/5.803 This isn't the fist time I've seen hits from Slashdot. Is this the OTHER Slashdot effect?
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That's a pretty bold statement. Nobody here is a programmer? I'd say at least a simple majority are. -todd
Sorry, I guess I phrased that badly - I meant to say that not everyone who reads Slashdot is a programmer, meaning that less than 100% of the readership belong to that profession. No more early-morning posting for me.
yeah, right.
Then go somewhere else to discuss those interests and skills.
Why? Is "News for Nerds" defined that way somewhere, and i've just missed it? I don't seem to see anything saying "News for Nerds, unless it's not about technology."
Wow, heres an ingenius idea. If you're not interested in a post, how about you not read it?
"You know, Oprah, I help people. I just have a reputation for that."
That is fucking acting. Tom Cruise is a delusional fucking idiot. His whole life is a fantasy act. Does Tom Cruise ever go a day without acting?
Aye..Bad Taste is a true classic. They came out with a special DVD not too long ago. There's nothing like sitting around with good friends, watching B-horror movies like Bad Taste, Evil Dead, anything based off of H.P. Lovecraft (Herbert West movies or Dagon for example) and etc...It's even better if they are still your friends after watching all those flicks.
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In the past year or so I think Scientology has been putting the screws on its celebrity members to speak out publicly in its favor. Up until then they avoided any mention of it, but I've noticed lately they're all yapping about how wonderful scientology is and how much it has helped them. What a bunch of fucktards. If you have any doubts, check out http://www.clambake.org/ for the truth about scientology. Their "teachings" are so moronic it's scary. Poor Tommy paid something like half a million smackeroos (probably a lot more) to progressively learn the story of Xenu, the evil alien overlord, and its sticky engram traps. How can anybody have any respect for this spectacularly idiotic man?
That's great, copy the whole article from a site which has created it to earn money. And you /.-moderators are encouraging this behaviour by modding this +5 informative.
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I wonder why you didn't post this under your own
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Everyone that reads /. is not a programmer. Some of us nerds have interests and skills beyond pure technology, Linux, and programming.
Yea, we can eat more doritos than anyone else
I recently got to see Bruce touring with Man with the Screaming Brain and his new book, Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way. Not only did I get my book signed but also a great half-hour Q&A session with the audience before the film. It was worth it and I recomend any Bruce Campbell fan check it out.
And the book is a great read for those of you into the Mike Nelson style of writing.
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But Slashdot commies are generally pups. Most will grow out of it.
Salon commies however are generally 60s hangovers who have maintained their 'purity' by living in liberal enclaves far from reality.
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There's a plot?
I mean, even in the "good 'ol days" the KDE vs. Gnome wars were incessant.
Saying "XYZ sucks!" I guess is a bad example. What I really am complaining about are the "What is XYZ? How is this related to Linux? How is this news for nerds?" posts.
-Stu
Well, I find some of the poster personalities fascinating and entertaining. And I find the quirkiness of the editors (Taco in particular) amusing.
But mostly I'm still here because I see the odd Insightful post that turns me onto something new - an idea, a project, etc. Or I get into a good debate about some kind of subject.
For example, I've known about ML, Caml, OCaml, etc., but I've frankly never heard of SML/NJ. So I'm checking it out. I deal mostly with mainstream stuff (working for BEA Systems), but I do like to keep tabs on the future.
As for "mob over man", I think you're quite right that all communities devolve to this, and Slashdot always had this (remember the KDE/Gnome flamefests?), which is why karma and moderation was introduced. I think it works fairly well compared to other large scale message boards.
Slashdot.... It's messy, annoying, dirty, occaisionally funny and rarely, but somewhat continuously, insightful. It's just disappointing that the new class of "nerd" seems to be more interested in narrow topics over broad ones.
-Stu
the scenery is better :-)
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I just took an informal poll of myself and my two cats, who have both posted to Slashdot (I recognized their typing style in a couple of posts), and 100% indicated non-programmerness. Therefore, I boldly assert that nobody here is a programmer, even though the dogs did not respond to the poll.
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Maybe a bit late on this post, but Bruce had nothing to do with "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension".
Everything else you listed was correct.
Hah. You're right... I was thinking of Peter Weller :)
Thanks.
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> It got moderated +5 informative because the majority of people also reject copyright
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that's the problem i'm talking about.
> something everyone knows to be wrong (aka copyright). That's just my opinion there...
NO. Certainly not everyone.
> You just wanted to put forth your own opinion and have a bit of a rant,
> but you didn't have the decency to do so in an upstanding sort of fashion,
> you had to twist it around so your opinion (that violating copyright is wrong)
> was presented as a fact beyond discussion and anyone who disagrees with you
> is a morally reprehensable person.
1) , It's a FACT, that violating copyright is illegal since 1886 and as of 2005 in 159 countries. Illegal, that's WRONG by law, q.e.d. You can have your moral opinion whether these are good laws, but not a legal opinion.
2) The Salon staff explicitly says that they do not want it to be copied. That's a violation of their wishes. "Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited Copyright 2005 Salon.com"
3) Everyone can read the article, if they go to salon.com and click through the "free site pass" and watch the ads. You don't have to spend any money, just a little time and effort. If you don't do that then Salon.com will have to close shop and there will be no other interview with Bruce Campbell to copy violate around, all because of your lazyness.
4) Bruce Campbell's movies are protected by EXACTLY THE SAME LAW that Salon's article is. If they were not, they would had been never produced and there would be no article to write about.
5) Linux's source code is protected by EXACTLY THE SAME LAW that Salon's article is (GPL). If there was no copyright Microsoft would simply copy linux into it's own code base.
6) The above situation #5 happened to the crew of mplayer. With copyright they have a legal way to prevent it.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.htm
"It has been brought to my attention, that the now famous KiSS Technology - already in violation of the GNU General Public License - has been confirmed stealing another program which is also completely under the GPL license."
"Every single one of their patterns match ours! This is not coincidence. This is stealing GPL code into a proprietary product! KiSS Technology failed to answer our inquiry for their source files (which they are obligated to provide)"
7) Even slashdot disagrees with you. Look at the bottom of this page.
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>So, I give myself permission to flame a bit...
> Why don't you just fuck off?
Now that was extra decent. pot/kettle/black.
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the article is still there and is accessible to everyone.
Apparently you have no clue how salon's "free site pass" works.
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