[plug] [link] Microsoft Linux

[James Elliott]

Thanks for your comments Peter

Fortunately for business and unfortunately from my leisure time pont of
view, it has been a very busy day for me, and it takes so much time to scan
the multitude of PLUG e-mails, made even greater in numbers by such
off-the-topic postings such as this, that a busy person can't be expected to
read every line carefully, unless it be an e-mail of particular interest.
Unfortunately I missed the "Monkey for Mars bit" and saw the usual Microsoft
Copyright message, and thought Leon was alerting us to something important.

I was a bit quick of the mark with my reply - one I didn't really have time
to write anyway.

Sorry

James Elliott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Wright" <pete at akira.apana.org.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] [link] Microsoft Linux


> On 09/09 11:40:00, James Elliott wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > It occurred to me straight away that the site might be a
> > "tongue-in-cheek" one, especially as it did not have the usual MS
> > URL address, so I scrolled down to the bottom and found the MS
> > copyright information and that is what made me think it was genuine
> > ...
>
> If you look elsewhere on the page, you'll notice a few fairly unsubtle
> clues - such as the aforementioned "Microsoft Monkey Colony on Mars"
> story, and of course the following quote in the "What others are
> saying" section:
>
>    "This is horseshit. Horseshit, horseshit, horseshit. And for those
>    of you who don't know what that means, it's the shit that comes
>    from a horse!" -- Greg, Columbia Internet
>
> > parodies are one thing buy falsifying copyright is not usually
> > supported by people having a joke.
>
> Just putting a false "copyright" tag doesn't mean anything.
>
>
> And as regards something more serious, eg. trademark infringement,
> there's quite a lot of leeway provided by law for satire/parody.
>
> > James Elliott
>
> Pete.
> --
> http://akira.apana.org.au/~pete/
> A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
>
>
>