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In article <slrn85sd7s.33d.cjc@zelda.ns.utk.edu>, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com
(Mike Stanley) wrote:
> > Look at it this way. We have a very nice yard to play in. It's big, it's
> > roomy, and it has many interesting things to play with. We COULD spend all
> > our time straining against the fence, but if we do, and we knock the fence
> > down, the owner of these nice things may come collect them, to prevent them
> > from being damaged or stolen. OR, we COULD simply appreciate the yard for
> > the many nice things it contains, and hope that more will be added in the
> > future. But to DEMAND that more things be placed in the yard, things WE did
> > not make and do not own...well, this strikes me as a trifle arrogant, and
> > ungrateful.
> >
> > There is a price to be paid for ingratitude. Let us pray we do not have to
> > pay it.
>
> As far as "paying" the price of ingratitude, I'm not worried. I'm
> paying REAL GOOD money every year for products from a company that
> before a couple weeks ago didn't seem to give a blurk about me one
> way or the other.
And you got what you paid for. Bricks. And instructions.
Paying the price of ingratitude could mean seeing ALL copyrighted material
come off the web. It could happen, and LEGO would be well within their
rights under copyright law to demand it.
My point is that instead of being grateful for what we have, which is, for
the most part, gravy, and something we were never entitled to in the first
place, people are griping about things which LEGO has a legit common sense
reason for not particularly wanting on the web.
This is just plain rude, and absurd.
I don't think it is "sucking up" to recognize that someone has a good common
sense reason. And I think it odd that anyone would go to arguing the law
when they can't get past common sense or manners. Yet that is what I have
been seeing here the last 2 weeks, and it bothers me.
Rob
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| (...) I'm probably in the minority here, but guess what? I don't care. I think what Kevin has done with Brickshelf.com is AWESOME. Utterly and completely AWESOME. I applaud his effort 100%. But you know what? For all the scans I've browsed through (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:00:41 GMT, "Robert M. Dye" <robdye@writeme.com> wrote: . (...) They'd be in their rights to demand it. It would not happen. The web simply doesn't work that way. Did you miss the dozens of posts screaming "someone email me the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Calling Tom Stangl (or any of us) a moron is over the line. I'd like to note that the MAJORITY of the name-calling within our own community has come from the side of the fence that seems to want to shut people up if they aren't going to just (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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