Who are these guys talking about banning? Whats the beef?
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sabram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:45 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Banning a member of the developer forums...
"Linke, Andreas" wrote:
>
> Palm? Isn't this the monopolists way?
It is the socail way. The way the case law goes that I have been part of,
if the server is privately run, placing it on the
Internet does not constitute a "public form". They can do whatever they
will with the data and who subscribes.
>
> Who decides what is respectful?
It is arbitrary upon the owner of the server. It is very much like the
signs "We reserve there right to refuse service to anyone."
that you see in restaurants and coffee houses.
I overall support their move. Open Source is that -- open. Meaning that
anyone can do whatever the dawn well please with it. If
Mike had any case, he would have written something of his own copyright
instead of coveting a public source and claming it as his
own "official" version. This is the biggest problem with open source, if
there is not IP to broker since it is open, the exchange
tries to go in as political power or attempted political power as we have
seen. The politics strangely get to be like a lot of
volunteer groups.
Steve
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