Comment Re:Where's our share? (Score 1) 333
First of all, have you ever used Google's mail service? It does not leech off of news agencies...if you have visited the site, you will notice that to view the full stories, one must visit the news services' websites. Sure, Google displays the headlines but.....can't RSS do pretty much the same thing?
Now, explain to me (using logic, please, not a bunch of paranoiac blather) how a search engine "leeches" the websites it searches through....by displaying links to the pages and a few extracts from the text? By that same definition, any link on any website to any other website would be "leeching" off of that website.
Uh oh...watch out webmasters...if you link anywhere outside your own site....you might get sued!!!
Oh, and wait....isn't your post your own work? Hmm....Watch out slashdot....you could be in trouble for displaying something that jfonseca posted on your site!!!
You know, if your reasoning held true, and we could all get sued for posting links to other sites on our pages, all traffic on the internet would stop. Without links, there is no websurfing. Without websurfing, there is no use for the net. Simple as that.
And the open source thing.....it's OPEN SOURCE!!!! The name implies that anyone can use it for any reason.
You know, based on your paranoiac post here, I would not be surprised if you next told us that we never landed on the moon and that Dubya is from Jupiter.....
Now, explain to me (using logic, please, not a bunch of paranoiac blather) how a search engine "leeches" the websites it searches through....by displaying links to the pages and a few extracts from the text? By that same definition, any link on any website to any other website would be "leeching" off of that website.
Uh oh...watch out webmasters...if you link anywhere outside your own site....you might get sued!!!
Oh, and wait....isn't your post your own work? Hmm....Watch out slashdot....you could be in trouble for displaying something that jfonseca posted on your site!!!
You know, if your reasoning held true, and we could all get sued for posting links to other sites on our pages, all traffic on the internet would stop. Without links, there is no websurfing. Without websurfing, there is no use for the net. Simple as that.
And the open source thing.....it's OPEN SOURCE!!!! The name implies that anyone can use it for any reason.
You know, based on your paranoiac post here, I would not be surprised if you next told us that we never landed on the moon and that Dubya is from Jupiter.....
