Will and Andrew- Topic closed. kthanksbye Will Hill wrote: > It has taken me a while to sort through your last letter and I've at last > found a few things worth writing about. It was so confused that it was > difficult to determine your intent. I asked you what I thought was the most > important question and got no answer. Most of the rest seemed to be > invective, which is not worth wasting much time with. In reading the rest > of it again, I noticed a mistake worth correcting for you. You accuse me of > hypocrisy though ideological zeal, but have ignorantly invented facts for a > case to suit your own argument. > > I can't pretend that I understand your charge of hypocrisy based on my > studies > at LSU, but I can assure you my work is available to the public. The main > product of my employment at LSU was my thesis, which is available to anyone > free of charge. I was compensated for my work at the time and I'm happy that > it is distributed freely. I have also made the code I used available at > > http://phys.lsu.edu/~willhill > > Similar work that I did for the Louisiana Transportation Research Center was > also published, though I'm not sure where it is anymore. You paid for it and > you deserve to have it. Research I do at private institutions will be > published as well and those publications will be as free as I can make them. > The point of publishing things is to share them, barriers defeat that > purpose. > > Your misunderstanding of the Comcast P2P attack is more informative of your > misunderstandings and blindness to change. The people who complained about > their bible translations being blocked were the authors of the translation. > They wanted people to have their work but Comcast's attack on P2P protocols > got in their way. The US federal government eventually agreed. Your mind > bent that story into the case you seem to be obsessed with - "piracy" of > entertainment that might harm the profits of big publishers. The straw man > you present of me is that I've got a gun to someone's head and that I'm > demanding, "Make me movies! Make me music!" but I'm much less concerned with > these things than you are. > > Are you really afraid that people sharing music and TV shows will somehow > diminish your entertainment? Is that so much more important than access to > knowledge and entertainment that free networks can bring? > > On Friday 30 January 2009, Andrew Baudouin wrote: >> Freedom of the press? This really is a religious argument for you, isn't >> it? >> >> Why do you demand having information for free? You are employed by LSU. >> Did you hand your last paycheck back because the research information you >> produced should have been free? >> >> I think that QOS is a legitimate way to ensure that high-bandwidth >> applications don't affect low latency ones. It's a technical solution to a >> technical problem. >> >> Bible translations aren't free. People do lots of work on translations and >> want to be fairly compensated for it, which is biblical by the way. >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. > http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > >
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