While in the past I've said the same thing, although not as civil, I agree that filtering is rendered useless and wasted effort when articles like these are posted.
In the past, Rob explained to me that the article(s) he posted had both Katz content as well as his own and that his wordcount was higher than Jon's, that's why he posted it under his own name.
Well, this article is a Jon Katz article... no two ways around it.
I'm not telling Rob how to run his site, simply giving user feedback on the functionality of which he has worked so hard on.
A solution... maybe make "Jon Katz" a topic that user's can block along with all the other topics of discussion? That way we can block him as an author AND a topic.
You thought that Sony was against MP3 (and portable players) because of their Mini Disc technology and the Sony Record label... now we know the whole truth.
Once again, Sony wishes to GRACE THE PLANET with a format war.
I find this more and more troubling each time I see it. News organizations taking quotes from slashdot comments (sometimes, out of context) and posting them to a news story. To me it seems they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for sources, so they leech from what we say here.
On the Gore2000 topic, I sent an email to him stating that he is violating a trademark that is only licensed to project that meet the open source requirements which his does not. I also let him know that he is losing MANY voters over this and we'd be better off with Ross Perot in the whitehouse. (The Ross Perot thing was just to get a reaction, heh.)
I wonder how many other people have emailed them about this?
"There are all different types of ways you can do open source," Valentine said. "We are looking into whether we should get into open source initiatives."
All different types of ways to do open source? I translate to mean "We plan on creating our own proprietary open source license that only applies to Windows and controls the use of the source code just as we control your desktop, your banks, and your lives."
Slashdot Mirror
Better yet, let's rename Redhat Linux to Linux NT!
My sig is in jest. I know it gives me no legal leg to stand on, just drawing attention to the subject.
I'll simply quote their copyright notice:
Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of ZDNet is prohibited.
Notice the "whole or in part" section. I guess I just violated that. heh.
A public place is defined as somewhere that anyone can assemble and speak freely without unreasonable limitation.
... HELL NO!
... take some of ZDNet's articles and repost them on your site. You'll be contacted by their lawyers real soon.
A website can limit it's visitors, remove users at will, and control all speech on that site for ANY reason the owner feels necessary.
This is NOT a public place such as a public sidewalk or the courthouse steps.
If I post something on my site, does that give ZDNet the right to post parts of it on their site without my permission
Just as an exercise
While in the past I've said the same thing, although not as civil, I agree that filtering is rendered useless and wasted effort when articles like these are posted.
... no two ways around it.
... maybe make "Jon Katz" a topic that user's can block along with all the other topics of discussion? That way we can block him as an author AND a topic.
In the past, Rob explained to me that the article(s) he posted had both Katz content as well as his own and that his wordcount was higher than Jon's, that's why he posted it under his own name.
Well, this article is a Jon Katz article
I'm not telling Rob how to run his site, simply giving user feedback on the functionality of which he has worked so hard on.
A solution
You thought that Sony was against MP3 (and portable players) because of their Mini Disc technology and the Sony Record label ... now we know the whole truth.
Once again, Sony wishes to GRACE THE PLANET with a format war.
Anyone still have a BETA VCR? Didn't think so.
I guess some old dogs NEVER learn new tricks.
I find this more and more troubling each time I see it. News organizations taking quotes from slashdot comments (sometimes, out of context) and posting them to a news story. To me it seems they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for sources, so they leech from what we say here.
On the Gore2000 topic, I sent an email to him stating that he is violating a trademark that is only licensed to project that meet the open source requirements which his does not. I also let him know that he is losing MANY voters over this and we'd be better off with Ross Perot in the whitehouse. (The Ross Perot thing was just to get a reaction, heh.)
I wonder how many other people have emailed them about this?
"There are all different types of ways you can do open source," Valentine said. "We are looking into whether we should get into open source initiatives."
All different types of ways to do open source? I translate to mean "We plan on creating our own proprietary open source license that only applies to Windows and controls the use of the source code just as we control your desktop, your banks, and your lives."