The problem with this is there is no definition of the generic "post". Don't think for one minute if it benefited them, AOL would apply "Post" to IM messages.
Here is the real problem:
"Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses."
It is not the privacy issue for me. It is the We and anyone we want to give it to can use your conversation, even profitting from it, without compensation to you.
I would not send anything you may care about over their service. I know many programmers that collaberate using IM and they have stopped using AIM, why? Because "Post" can be a generic term in this day and age and they do not want AOL using their code anyway they want to, without compensation at all.
And of course you know that the whole Linux community would be in competition with 1 person right?
When many people contribute, of course you can make 1 persons donation seem trivial.....
http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=8 888
"Last year (2001) he was reported to have given $2 billion to charities through the Belinda and Bill gates Foundation. In 2000 he gave more than $5 billion."
MUCH more than that....
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The problem with this is there is no definition of the generic "post". Don't think for one minute if it benefited them, AOL would apply "Post" to IM messages. Here is the real problem: "Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses." It is not the privacy issue for me. It is the We and anyone we want to give it to can use your conversation, even profitting from it, without compensation to you. I would not send anything you may care about over their service. I know many programmers that collaberate using IM and they have stopped using AIM, why? Because "Post" can be a generic term in this day and age and they do not want AOL using their code anyway they want to, without compensation at all.
And of course you know that the whole Linux community would be in competition with 1 person right? When many people contribute, of course you can make 1 persons donation seem trivial.....
http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=8 888
"Last year (2001) he was reported to have given $2 billion to charities through the Belinda and Bill gates Foundation. In 2000 he gave more than $5 billion."
MUCH more than that....
http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=8 888
2 billion! and 5 billion! You can't argue over numbers like that.