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Calum:
ok then, you know it amazes me how many people seem to have a problem with the things i say and do on this forum, when i am simply trying to be useful. i suposse i should fuck off then should i? just to make all your sorry lives a little bit easier? it's just that when half a dozen new threads pop up every day and they all contain one post containing only the word "www.somefuckingurl.com/somefuckingdirectory/somefuckingpage/573465843685y3478,57654y6.html" then i kind of think 'I CAN'T BE ARSED TO READ ALL THIS SHIT!!!!' and i kind of think that maybe other people will feel the same. well since it seems to be 'kick calum in the nuts day' then FINE. i'll fucking stop. happy now? hmm? some other dumb fuck can try and be helpful from now on, and they can get the fucking knocks for it too.

TheGreatPoo:
Porbably doesn't make any difference but I happen to like the fact that you placed the artical in your post.  I appreaciate you making my sorry life a little better.  

Calum:
yes, it's funny how one person moaning on about how shit i am seems to bring out a few people who say they appreciated what i was trying to do.

thank you for your kind words.

slave:
I think Calum is doing good by posting these articles.  It makes life easier for everyone on the forums.  If you bully him into stop doing it then I certainly will continue in his place since I don't believe in copyrights anyway.  Well, actually I do, but not in the sense most people do.  I have the *right* to *copy.* Copyright.  Not copy-restriction.  If lawyers from the Register suddenly show up and shove cease and desist orders in our faces then we'll take the articles off but only because they have the "law" on their side and can threaten us with it.

Nice article by the way     Why Microsoft didn't embrace Unix like Apple did is beyond me.  I guess if they did they couldn't maintain their monopoly status.

[ November 22, 2002: Message edited by: Linux User #5225982375 ]

DC:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
(You probably read this already)
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Dudes, take it easy!
I didn't mean to offend you, I just feel it's so stupid to post a link that is one click away.
If someone just posts the URL, it isn't bad to post the article. But if there's a *link*, it's just one click and you have the entire article. It's so senseless to copy the whole thing. That's what www is all about, sort off (linking web pages and such)

If someone posts a link to an article, I stop there and read the damn article, since that is what the post is about. If someone else copies the article after that, it's redundant, since you'd already read it.

Anyway, people need to read the artice, and there is no real difference if the Register or you post it. So *why* take the effort to copy it? It's not that it's hard to middle-click on that link.

The "I CAN'T BE ARSED TO READ ALL THIS SHIT" is pretty... odd. If you post the whole article, there is no difference between it and the link. So, if you want to be helpful, post a summary.

But do understand, it's not personal or anything - it's just that the whole trend of copying articles seems so useless. I do value your input in discusssions, as long if it is yours. if you copy the article and *then* post a reply, I wouldn't mind, since you might quote the artice, but you didn't.

And Linux user (nice name btw), copyright is an entire other discussion, with much arguments for and against from both sides in various degrees... that's not the scope of this discussion anyway. And I doubt the Register will even bother, but that was not my point anyway.

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