[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 @ 13:35 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:

> Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> > "Oops,  
> > you don't have FULL RIGHTS to that 200 word article, but if you want  
> > to buy it for THIRTY DOLLARS, click here." Why did you let it come up  
> > in a search if I didn't have rights to read it?
> 
> Because if it didn't come up in your search, they wouldn't have the
> chance of selling it to you ....
> 
> but still, thirty dollars for a 200-word article containing data that I
> can doubtless find elsewhere?  Bite me.

For that matter, 30 cents if it gets in the way of doing your work.

What a lot of these morons don't seem to understand about their
licensing and payment systems is that often it isn't the money, but the
hit on reliability all of them come with.

I don't want the hassle of licensing and locked data, even if they made
it 1 penny per year.

None of them seem to understand that, they think it is all about the
price.

They are too damned stupid to think that maybe you need to access it
from somewhere you can't make payment or comply with the license, or
maybe after they've died, you resent no longer being able to use
something you paid for.

I once used a service that was decent, but you had to pay to download
what it found.  It was cheap so I tried it.  Then I found out that what
you downloaded was encrypted with an expiring key!

The hell with that.

-- 
shannon           | We have nothing to prove.
                  |        -- Alan Dawkins