Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!lfcs!jha From: jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation network: how's my .signature? Message-ID: <2349@etive.ed.ac.uk> Date: 14 Jun 89 09:35:21 GMT References: <1106@servax0.essex.ac.uk> Sender: news@etive.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews) Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U Lines: 26 Copyright: 1989 by Jamie Andrews; copying permitted only in articles in unmoderated Usenet newsgroups. In article karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >...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? Well *I* wouldn't, because that's the kind of interaction and the kind of profit-making that Usenet was built for. It has grown up as a cooperative venture, where people help each other make profits by sharing information. It was not built so that the Firstest with the Mostest could help themselves make profits by exploiting its popularity and the wide range of information and commentary on it. As a "borderline anarchist", Karl, you should recognize the difference between competition and cooperation. [Rabid pro-competition flames will be ignored.] Now Usenet is huge and popular, and we still have the lack of control and regulation that goes along with the cooperative spirit, which is good. But because of that, I don't see how we can stop these kind of things from happening, other than including long copyright notices and so on. That doesn't mean that I have to be happy about them happening. --Jamie. jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk "What made it special, made it dangerous"