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Well, it's not fun if you're worried that someone's going to quote you
out of context. I've been there myself.
Personally, I respect her viewpoint, which you're dismissing out of
hand.
I wouldn't be so quick to equate "legal" with "ethical" and "polite."
Arthur Comings
Senior Technical Writer
GeoQuest Data Management Division
5725 Paradise Drive, Suite 100
Corte Madera, CA 94925
(415) 927-6215
atc -at- corte-madera -dot- sds -dot- slb -dot- com
> I am not a copyright expert, but I believe that I read that it is
> permissable to include little bits of copyrighted material in your
> own work for the purposes of commentary, so it may have been quite
> legal and ethical for him to quote us with or without our permission.
> That, and the prevailing net attitude that free access equals free
> use, makes the fact that He announced his intentions both on the
> group and privately to those involved an applaudable act.
> So Karen hates what he's doing, and I applaud it. Aint it fun bein'
> a human?
> Cheers,
> _______________________
> / ___ __/__\ \ / / _\ Steve Fouts
> /___ \| | ___\ | / __\ sfouts -at- ellison -dot- sc -dot- ti -dot- com
> / / \ | \ / \
> /_______/__|_______\_/________\ "These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper,
> but _minds_ alive on the shelves." -- Gilbert Highet
