Re: Proterm is gone from Asimov!

[pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)]

Erick Wagner <wagnere@concentric.net> writes:

>Paul Francis Gilbert wrote:
>> 
>> Erick Wagner <wagnere@concentric.net> writes:
>> 
>> >Rubywand wrote:
>> >>
>> >>      You, as a non-owner of Appleworks copy rights, are free to press
>> >> for removal of any Awks version you like. If you want to get anywhere,
>> >> contact the Appleworks copyright owner, see if the owner cares, and
>> >> suggest that the owner contact Asimov. This is the standard procedure.
>> 
>> >The standard procedure for thieves?
>> 
>> Cool. So you're calling Nathan Mates, Richard Bennett, and all the other
>> whiners thieves themselves now. ROTFLOL.... now Nathan himself can get a
>> "real pirate" badge! ;-)

>No, I'm not Paul. Please re-read.

>The procedure that Rubywand outlined is highly questionable, especially
>when all involved companies still exist.

I've re-read the article, and I still don't see that there's anything
questionable about it. Are you suggesting that one *shouldn't* contact
the copyright owner (and I presume that's not what you mean). Certainly
I can't see anything wrong with contacting the owner and alerting them to
the problem and letting them deal with it... as has been mentioned the
whole pointed of copyright law is a loaded gun (hasn't that simile been used
a lot ;-)).

Certainly I would frown upon an alternative suggestion to take the law into
your own hands (slander, flaming, etc. call it what you will). When one 
believes that the end justifies the means, any means, then one is as guilty 
as that against which one objects [I've got a feeling this a quote from
somewhere, but I can't remember where].

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