[brlug-general] Cox prepares to suck more.

[Dustin Puryear]

Will and Andrew- Topic closed. kthanksbye

Will Hill wrote:
> It has taken me a while to sort through your last letter and I've at last 
> found a few things worth writing about.  It was so confused that it was 
> difficult to determine your intent.  I asked you what I thought was the most 
> important question and got no answer.  Most of the rest seemed to be 
> invective, which is not worth wasting much time with.   In reading the rest 
> of it again, I noticed a mistake worth correcting for you.  You accuse me of 
> hypocrisy though ideological zeal, but have ignorantly invented facts for a 
> case to suit your own argument.  
> 
> I can't pretend that I understand your charge of hypocrisy based on my studies 
> at LSU, but I can assure you my work is available to the public.  The main 
> product of my employment at LSU was my thesis, which is available to anyone 
> free of charge.  I was compensated for my work at the time and I'm happy that 
> it is distributed freely.  I have also made the code I used available at 
> 
> http://phys.lsu.edu/~willhill
> 
> Similar work that I did for the Louisiana Transportation Research Center was 
> also published, though I'm not sure where it is anymore.  You paid for it and 
> you deserve to have it.  Research I do at private institutions will be 
> published as well and those publications will be as free as I can make them.  
> The point of publishing things is to share them, barriers defeat that 
> purpose.
> 
> Your misunderstanding of the Comcast P2P attack is more informative of your 
> misunderstandings and blindness to change.  The people who complained about 
> their bible translations being blocked were the authors of the translation.  
> They wanted people to have their work but Comcast's attack on P2P protocols 
> got in their way.  The US federal government eventually agreed.  Your mind 
> bent that story into the case you seem to be obsessed with - "piracy" of 
> entertainment that might harm the profits of big publishers.  The straw man 
> you present of me is that I've got a gun to someone's head and that I'm 
> demanding, "Make me movies!  Make me music!" but I'm much less concerned with 
> these things than you are.
> 
> Are you really afraid that people sharing music and TV shows will somehow 
> diminish your entertainment?  Is that so much more important than access to  
> knowledge and entertainment that free networks can bring?  
> 
> On Friday 30 January 2009, Andrew Baudouin wrote:
>> Freedom of the press?  This really is a religious argument for you, isn't
>> it?
>>
>> Why do you demand having information for free?  You are employed by LSU.
>> Did you hand your last paycheck back because the research information you
>> produced should have been free?
>>
>> I think that QOS is a legitimate way to ensure that high-bandwidth
>> applications don't affect low latency ones.  It's a technical solution to a
>> technical problem.
>>
>> Bible translations aren't free.  People do lots of work on translations and
>> want to be fairly compensated for it, which is biblical by the way.
>>
> 
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