max_mm - 2:44 pm on Feb 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

Nice spotting MultiMan,

I’ve been suspecting this to be the case all along but held back thinking “surly G$ wont go THAT low”….i’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

ThatAdamGuy said:

I also think it's interesting to note that uber-geek (and IMHO quite-well-respected writer and technologist) Cory Doctorow has spoken out strongly in favor of the autolinks concept: In small part: And so on -- it's my screen, and I should be able to control it; companies like Google and individuals should be able to provide tools and services to let me control it. Amen.

That’s a load of balony.....” it's my screen, and I should be able to control it”. MS Office programs (or any other software) are also on your screen....imagine a company releasing a tool bar that turns all menu items in word into online sales link for linux distros....or better still, links the MS logos on the windows update page to the linux update site ..MS legal representatives will want to meet the developers in court the following day (software reverse engineering). Or imagine a tool bar that turns all adsense ads on web pages into overture ads.

Cory Doctorow can say what he likes....nothing changes the fact that it is an abuse of developers intellectual property and bandwidth thievery.

I’m the one who created (and own all rights to) my web site. It is MY intellectual property and only I should have a say on what links should display on MY pages. If the user doesn’t like it then the user can go back to where he/she came from and search for another site. That simple!

[edited by: max_mm at 3:00 pm (utc) on Feb. 28, 2005]