Saving Pictures (was Re: [thelist] More Smart Tags)

[Canfield, Joel]

Two different conversations going on here:

1. Technical discussion re: does all of this violate the protection of
intellectual property.
2. Gut-feeling discussion of, is Microsoft doing something wrong here?

re: 1 - I Am Not A Lawyer (hereinafter 'IANAL' [doesn't that work out
nice?]) but I don't think saying 'easy' is the same as saying 'legal, moral,
correct'
re: 2 - Yes, you're right; if they say it's easy, many will assume that
they're saying it's okay. My wholehearted condolences to anyone who uses
Microsoft as their moral touchstone.

No argument here; I was thinking from the technical perspective.

spinhead

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Bakum [mailto:jamie.bakum at circle.com]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:53 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: Saving Pictures (was Re: [thelist] More Smart Tags)


> No, they say it's possible, even easy. The quote posted didn't say it was
> morally good or acceptable.

Oh come on - if you say something is "easy" (and explain how your product
makes it so) the clear inference is that it's acceptable -
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Jamie