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RE: [Fluxx] Fluxx for American Girls

  • From"Matthew Sach" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • DateFri, 4 Apr 2008 17:12:12 +0100
Christopher Hickman wrote:
> On Friday, April 04, 2008, at 11:08AM, "Matthew Sach"
<matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Christopher Hickman wrote:
> >> > Perhaps it got reported for copyright issues. Does LiveJournal do
that?
> >> >   
> >> Not that I know.  According to the friend I originally heard about 
> >> it from, it appears the author locked down the post to just the
group 
> >> after someone from outside the group pointed out that it was 
> >> a copyright violation.
> >
> >Oh, well, that's fine then. As long as not everyone can see it, then
> >it's not *really* a violation of copyright, is it?
> 
> Check out Andy's thoughts on Patents.  
> http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Games/PatentsAndLawsuits.html
> 
> Andy's pretty cool about it.  I don't think he's going to be 
> mad about this project, but we can wait to hear from him.

That's a very respectable attitude demonstrated there. I wish more
people could be like that! And I totally agree with Andy's serious
dislike of the way society is on average becoming more litigious. It
lends itself to all sorts of idiocy with warning labels, how schools are
run, attempts at making the 'net safer, etc.

Two examples:

<snipped, ranty and off-topic, I'm sure you can all come up with some of
your own ;)>

Matt
JohnHenry.net
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