Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 13 Mar 2002:
> And you will also note that by the tenth comment, people were > already correcting the story and an update was posted within an > hour or two. Overall the system works pretty well. Overall, I don't think that is a solution. Would you care if the news ran a thing tonight saying "Hey, Travis Crump robbed a bank today", and then 20 minutes later said "Oh, sorry, we messed up, no he didn't". You don't run stories without facts. Hell, I can't even legally say "Mr. Smith killed two people last night", even if there is video of him doing it and every time he is in public he says "Yeah, I killed them". I have to say "Mr. Smith alledgedly killed two people". This is absolutely no different. /. said, flat out, "Morpheus violates the GPL", which is basically saying Music City is breaking the law and stealing code, when they did nothing wrong. It's flat out a lie. How exactly would one come to the conclusion Music City wasn't following the GPL? The GPL states that source must be made available. Not it must be included with the binary. Couple of idiots wanting to get a big name for themselves probably saw the source wasn't included with the binary, never bothered to see the huge "Source Code" link off the main page of Morpheus and went straight to press. If my local paper had done that, they'd have been sued. I see no reason why /. is exempt from this. The fact they are an online news site shouldn't exempt them from checking facts before running stories. -- AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
