Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation network: how's my .signature? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 89 18:27:38 GMT References: <1106@servax0.essex.ac.uk> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 29 In-reply-to: alan@essex.ac.uk's message of 13 Jun 89 09:53:15 GMT alan@essex.ac.uk writes: I don't mind sharing my articles. But I OBJECT to someone other than myself making a profit from my intellectual efforts. A scenario for you... You are a person who is very knowledgeable about the OmniBlotchWorks 32x line of (strictly hypothetical) computers. You participate fairly regularly and extremely informatively in comp.sys.obw32x. Joe Random, somewhere off in the darkest boondocks of the network, has an OBW32x and reads your postings religiously, and as a direct result of your contributions, gains additional expertise and direction by which to improve his working position, resulting in raises and/or promotions which would not have occurred without your help. Joe made a profit (monetarily, career-advancement-wise, or both) from your postings. Are you going to attempt to get a lien against Joe's future salary as compensation for your contribution to his career? --Karl borderline anarchist PS- `Joe' is not hypothetical. I consider my own position to have improved dramatically by my participation in and observation of the network. And I am fully aware that my participation in some areas of the news have resulted in similar assistance from myself to other `Joes' out there - more power to them.