The Mall makes 4 to 10 percent off of everything the store sells, so the stores are essentially cheating the Mall-owners by directing buyers to their internet site.
Here's a scenario: you go to the website. There's a link to search for the nearest retail store near you. You go to that store (which happnes to be in a mall). Therefore, the website has led to a retail sale.
This is not a freedom of speech thing, it is all about honoring the intent of a contract.
Where in the contract(s) does it say you can't promote a URL? Especially if the URL brings people into the store. Also, it's hypocritical that the mall itself has a website...
The stores should respect the current business model of the Mall and perhaps suggest a change in the revenue model which is more 'internet compatible'
OK...recording artists should respect the current business model of the recording companies by not releasing MP3s or pressing their own albums. Open source software writers should respect the current business model of software publishing by closing their source & charging big $$$.
The Internet is *changing* current business models. If I was this mall, I'd start aggressively using the Web (maybe by hosting websites for some of the smaller businesses, or some other idea).
The fact that the stores are considering legal action is 100% proof idiotic !
What's 100% idiotic is changing the terms of a lease for something that is highly unenforceable.
IMHO: Shopping Malls are all crap, and they should all be bulldozed.
But then where would we get Orange Juliuses from? (BTW, this is slightly offtopic, but it looks like http://www.orangejulius.com was hacked.)
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Not to piss on your parade or anything, but wouldn't *James Earl Jones* be the best choice for this? (He is still alive, you know...and even if he weren't, they do wonders with digital recordings)>
(Yes, I'm being an a**hole, but I'm in a bitter mood at the moment...so sue me)
When I submitted, I used the term *allegedly* (meaning I questioned the veracity of the listing). It looked mighty suspicious to me (why so many platforms, for one).
I think one reason this page is so popular (anyone got a mirror? The page is now in the happy place we call the Slashdot Zone) and *funny* (well, to most people anyway) is because it's an infovirus (I think the proper term is meme).
Read Stephenson's Snow Crash to get an idea of what the heck I'm talking about.
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So, Linus came up with the name, and he typed it on some mail, or newsgroup.
IIRC, Linus did *not* come up with the name Linux himself. Originally, it was to be called Freax, but the admin of the first FTP server you could download it from (what was his name? I've never been able to find it. He deserves a little credit) thought that name wasn't too good, so he (the admin) decided to call it Linux.
With: a picture of Tux, shown in the Gimp (2 birds with one stone), with Netscape & WordPerfect windows open, and one or two xterms (possibly with vi and/or emacs open in them).
That way, (almost) everybody's happy...you've shown that Linux *does* have a desktop (and a command line), a good mix of open & commercial software, and a cute mascot:).
Why not build your own server (using Linux or *BSD as the OS, most likely) and colocate? All those ads on your site should bring in enough to cover it.
Or if Bill Gates had gotten into MIT instead of Harvard, and met a certain Richard M. Stallman (something I've thought about making the subject of a short story).
Are you willing to branch out to making educational games (especially for lower-end Linux boxes and set-tops)? This would not only create positive publicity for Id, but also create big marketshare for your company.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't the US freeze Iranian assets after their revolution (in 1979-1980 or so)?
Here's a scenario: you go to the website. There's a link to search for the nearest retail store near you. You go to that store (which happnes to be in a mall). Therefore, the website has led to a retail sale.
This is not a freedom of speech thing, it is all about honoring the intent of a contract.
Where in the contract(s) does it say you can't promote a URL? Especially if the URL brings people into the store. Also, it's hypocritical that the mall itself has a website...
The stores should respect the current business model of the Mall and perhaps suggest a change in the revenue model which is more 'internet compatible'
OK...recording artists should respect the current business model of the recording companies by not releasing MP3s or pressing their own albums. Open source software writers should respect the current business model of software publishing by closing their source & charging big $$$.
The Internet is *changing* current business models. If I was this mall, I'd start aggressively using the Web (maybe by hosting websites for some of the smaller businesses, or some other idea).
The fact that the stores are considering legal action is 100% proof idiotic !
What's 100% idiotic is changing the terms of a lease for something that is highly unenforceable.
IMHO: Shopping Malls are all crap, and they should all be bulldozed.
But then where would we get Orange Juliuses from? (BTW, this is slightly offtopic, but it looks like http://www.orangejulius.com was hacked.)
(Yes, I'm being an a**hole, but I'm in a bitter mood at the moment...so sue me)
(BTW, read the last two sentences...don't you wish everyone in government thought like that?)
I think that happened to me at a wild party once.
http://www.w3.org/Amya
Looks like it uses a BSD-type license: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice.html #Copyright
Read Stephenson's Snow Crash to get an idea of what the heck I'm talking about.
IIRC, Linus did *not* come up with the name Linux himself. Originally, it was to be called Freax, but the admin of the first FTP server you could download it from (what was his name? I've never been able to find it. He deserves a little credit) thought that name wasn't too good, so he (the admin) decided to call it Linux.
That way, (almost) everybody's happy...you've shown that Linux *does* have a desktop (and a command line), a good mix of open & commercial software, and a cute mascot :).
Think about it...rather than worry about licensing issues, they can pre-install Linux (I'm over-simplifying, I know).
KJV or NIV :).
The Smithsonian Institution museums.
Adams-Morgan & Georgetown (lot of upscale, yuppie types).
Let's not forget the 'burbs (Montgomery County MD and Tysons Corner VA come to mind).
BTW, I've been in SE DC...helps if you fit in :).
http://www.bootnet.com/you askedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html
The original image (click on the image next to the first paragraph) plus an interview with Linus.