Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

[Chris Ahlstrom]

After takin' a swig o' grog, David Kastrup belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> "amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:
>
>> "David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org>
>>
>>> Since when?  If I send a personal letter to someone, I don't charge a
>>> fee for it.  He still is not authorized for redistributing my letter or
>>> using its content in publications of his.
>>>
>> I don't see where that has any bearing on the issue, whether it is
>> true or not.  If you send me a letter, I think that I am free to show
>> it to anyone as I see fit.
>
> Sure.  Fair use.  You are also allowed to show and lend a book you
> acquired to anybody you want to as you see fit.  But you are not
> authorized to make additional copies and send them around.
>
>> Any set of words on a piece of paper do not qualify as a "unique
>> expression, fixed in a media".
>
> They don't?

Apparently, amicus is only ignorant, as opposed to the liar Rjack.

He doesn't know that his own word here are automatically copyrighted.

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