Larry Stotler wrote:

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Linux Journal December 2nd, 2008 by Justin Ryan

Hi Fred. While I'm glad to see this happen, as someone who has been paid for writing articles, I thought I would point out a few things:

1. Linux Journal is a copyrighted site. IANAL, but I do believe that your post has violated their copyright.

First, I also get paid. Second, I didn't copy it from their site.

2. Generally, when you post about an article, I would recommend only posting the first and/or second paragraph, and then give the link to the article. Sites generate income through ad revenue, and the writer generally gets paid by how many times the page is viewed - at least that's how I get paid . Please support website authors(like me :-)

The original article is available at:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opensuse-ends-eula

Yep....sure is. Fred -- "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson, 1802 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 00:21, Larry Stotler wrote:

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Linux Journal December 2nd, 2008 by Justin Ryan Hi Fred. While I'm glad to see this happen, as someone who has been

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote: paid for writing articles, I thought I would point out a few things:

1. Linux Journal is a copyrighted site. IANAL, but I do believe that your post has violated their copyright.

2. Generally, when you post about an article, I would recommend only posting the first and/or second paragraph, and then give the link to the article. Sites generate income through ad revenue, and the writer generally gets paid by how many times the page is viewed - at least that's how I get paid . Please support website authors(like me :-)

The original article is available at:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opensuse-ends-eula

While I totally agree with you -- support the site and support the authors. Sometimes articles get taken offline and it is nice to have an archive somewhere (there will be plenty of archives of this mailing lists on sites indexed by search engines). But to be honest, I have no idea what Linux Journal's policy is for keeping archived old articles.

Local news sites seem to be the worst, sometimes pulling articles after a month.

True. I don't even remember who sent it to me.....but I passed it on. ANYONE who reads my posts, KNOWS that if I get it from Infoworld, Zdnet or another pub., I either only send the url or a paragraph or two with it....at most. I DON'T have time to chase down everything someone sends me. Fred -- "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson, 1802 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Fred A. Miller wrote:

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True. I don't even remember who sent it to me.....but I passed it on. ANYONE who reads my posts, KNOWS that if I get it from Infoworld, Zdnet or another pub., I either only send the url or a paragraph or two with it....at most. I DON'T have time to chase down everything someone sends me.

No sweat Fred, just checking. I didn't want to step on anyone else's toes, much less yours. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

I find it a little unfair to assume he forgot it. If you read the offtopic list, you will have noticed Fred posts a lot of articles in there and always abides to your 2 points. The fact that he didn't do that here was enough for me to see somthing went amiss out of his hands. Neil -- While working towards the future one should be ensuring that there is a future to work to. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org