Tero, Your Xmas spirit of love was wan at best towards Michael, who as Jon has pointed out, has gained you a lot more exposure. Should we simply ignore you and boycott debry?
Not being a Yankee See, Yankee Do type, I'm sure you understand the need to be kindly disposed to human foibles and avoid the legalistic, litigious and pedantic approach to his promoting your writings since it was not for personal gain, and it was of great benefit to you. Of course, genuinely malicious stealing of your property should be sternly dealt with and I'm sure the gentleman here could help you.
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Subject 24219
Michael's allegedly illegal copying [one must be legally pedantic in these sensitive matters] raises an interesting aspect of IPR. I thought you and your Nokia idol were in favour of intellectual property being for the greater good and that it should not be held by one individual legal entity, even though they created it, to benefit them ahead of others. Nor should the entity that created the property set a price on the use of that property by others.
I have recently established a Web Standards Committee and your property was declared publicly useful and in the interests of you not having a monopoly, we may all use your property at will. Do not stand in our way, you selfish, evil person - one greedy person like you cannot expect to stop the progress of an industry, let alone humanity.
You are required to forthwith send to us all the articles which you prepare so that we may publish these, under the new Web Standard which we have unilaterally declared. Sorry, but you are not in the club so can't vote on it.
Was that you sounding like a 747?
Mqurice
PS: I have contacted Janet Reno with a view to her bringing an antitrust action against you for abuse of your knowledge and ability monopoly to write those articles and the leveraging of that monopoly into Web advertising which is not your traditional field. While you might argue that others can write similar articles, the fact is that only you have that unique monopoly to put them together in the inimitable Teroist style. See you in court!
[Actually, I'm a bit frustrated because I'd noticed no url to debry in Michael's post and I thought I had written a post saying it was a little unfair to not provide a link, and included a debry link in my post. I did comment on your article, but must have got sidetracked part way through. Oh well, just a bit of brain failure.]
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