Yahoeuvre history [Re: Oh, Jeffro
Message ID: 304621
Posted By: al_petrofsky
Posted On: 2005-09-20 14:48:00
Subject: Yahoeuvre history [Re: Oh, Jeffro
Recs: 21
biffs_english_teacher:
> What's hilarious is all the abuse and
> half baked legal BS the BGEs thrust at
> [cdbaric] during this argument ...
> So the BGEs are still hypocrites ...
Perhaps you don't consider me a BGE, but
just in case anyone thought you were
talking about me:
http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&sid=1607394124&tid=ckx&mid=10029
Subject: Yahoeuvre overreaction
Date/Time: 01/04/05 12:37 pm
by: al_petrofsky
Msg: 10029
From an email I just sent to andy@warmcat.com:
I must take issue with the notice at
yah.warmcat.com:
> Due to a complaint from a Yahoo!(R) board poster
> about re-serving his Yahoo!(R) post content from
> here, which I cannot afford a lawyer to argue
> despite noting some Yahoo boards are in Google
> Cache and cached elsewhere, a "super new low
> functionality mode!!!" has been added. Woohoo!
> This changes the links to posts and threads to
> point back to the Yahoo! originals rather than
> serving them in convenient threadflow format,
> and renders the NNTP serving, RSS generation and
> Mailing List features inoperable. Yes, this is
> the kind of 'innovation' that Microsoft would be
> proud of. I apologize for any disappointment.
This seems like just the sort of bullshit move I
would expect by PJ: "Gabriel asked me to remove
some selected material, therefore I have killed
the whole site and its his fault. Go get him."
Thurston only asked that you remove his own
worthless posts. Even if he hadn't already
retracted the request, there would be no reason to
act like your only options are:
1. Fund an expensive legal defense.
or
2. Remove all the messages from the site.
All Thurston ever requested was something much,
much less onerous.
-al
http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&sid=1607394124&tid=ckx&mid=10041
Subject: Re: Yahoeuvre overreaction
Date/Time: 01/04/05 01:00 pm
by: al_petrofsky
Msg: 10041
From a followup email:
> I do greatly appreciate all the work you've done
> on yahoeuvre, and the fact that you GPLed the
> code, and I will consider hosting it.
> I don't object to you deciding, for any reason
> whatsoever, that you no longer wish to host
> yahoeuvre. What I object to is blaming Thurston
> for actions that he never took, and pretending
> that you were forced to do something that no one
> actually forced.
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Posted By: al_petrofsky
Posted On: 2005-09-20 14:48:00
Subject: Yahoeuvre history [Re: Oh, Jeffro
Recs: 21
biffs_english_teacher:
> What's hilarious is all the abuse and
> half baked legal BS the BGEs thrust at
> [cdbaric] during this argument ...
> So the BGEs are still hypocrites ...
Perhaps you don't consider me a BGE, but
just in case anyone thought you were
talking about me:
http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&sid=1607394124&tid=ckx&mid=10029
Subject: Yahoeuvre overreaction
Date/Time: 01/04/05 12:37 pm
by: al_petrofsky
Msg: 10029
From an email I just sent to andy@warmcat.com:
I must take issue with the notice at
yah.warmcat.com:
> Due to a complaint from a Yahoo!(R) board poster
> about re-serving his Yahoo!(R) post content from
> here, which I cannot afford a lawyer to argue
> despite noting some Yahoo boards are in Google
> Cache and cached elsewhere, a "super new low
> functionality mode!!!" has been added. Woohoo!
> This changes the links to posts and threads to
> point back to the Yahoo! originals rather than
> serving them in convenient threadflow format,
> and renders the NNTP serving, RSS generation and
> Mailing List features inoperable. Yes, this is
> the kind of 'innovation' that Microsoft would be
> proud of. I apologize for any disappointment.
This seems like just the sort of bull
would expect by PJ: "Gabriel asked me to remove
some selected material, therefore I have killed
the whole site and its his fault. Go get him."
Thurston only asked that you remove his own
worthless posts. Even if he hadn't already
retracted the request, there would be no reason to
act like your only options are:
1. Fund an expensive legal defense.
or
2. Remove all the messages from the site.
All Thurston ever requested was something much,
much less onerous.
-al
http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&sid=1607394124&tid=ckx&mid=10041
Subject: Re: Yahoeuvre overreaction
Date/Time: 01/04/05 01:00 pm
by: al_petrofsky
Msg: 10041
From a followup email:
> I do greatly appreciate all the work you've done
> on yahoeuvre, and the fact that you GPLed the
> code, and I will consider hosting it.
> I don't object to you deciding, for any reason
> whatsoever, that you no longer wish to host
> yahoeuvre. What I object to is blaming Thurston
> for actions that he never took, and pretending
> that you were forced to do something that no one
> actually forced.
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