Jim, he's not dead!
Posted on 06/19/2002 1:54:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I just received official word that our settlement with the LAT/WP in their alleged copyright infringement and unfair competion suit against Free Republic (click Source link above for complete history of the case) is completely finalized with the court. I do not have a copy of the final order yet, but the basic terms are as follows:
- Unless we receive prior written permission on an article by article basis, Free Republic agrees to continue posting only excerpts (as allowed by fair use) and links from any of the LAT/WP or related publications.
- Free Republic agrees to remove all full text copies of any LAT/WP and related publications copyrighted articles from its archives and servers and to destroy all copies of same.
- Neither party is awarded any damages, attorney fees or costs except that Free Republic agrees to pay the Los Angeles Times $5,000 and the Washington Post $5,000 (these negotiated amounts have already been paid).
I will post the entire final order including the list of related publications as soon as I receive a copy and get it scanned in.
Well, my fingers are not cold and dead and my keyboard has not been ripped away. While this is not entirely a win for FR, neither is it a crushing defeat. Free Republic is alive and well and the fight against liberalism continues on. It's a crying shame that the hallowed words of the WP/LAT will no longer grace our pages, but, somehow, I am sure we will manage to live on without them.
And despite what our detractors may say, we have not committed any crimes or broken any laws and we have not admitted to any guilt. We have negotiated a mutual agreement and settlement with the LAT/WP and have agreed upon satisfactory terms for continuing forward without having to spend the rest of our lives in court.
Many thanks to all of you for your past and continuing support.
Regards.
Jim Robinson
There are so many strange things said on FR that we need a thread just to capture the silly, strange, odd, comments from the Freakers. Here's the first. I'll include it in context.They then go on to mock your use of the word 'deprecated', John, claiming that you are a moron and do not know how to use the word correctly.
Originally Posted by John Robinson http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/701149/posts You now have the ability to add keywords to existing articles. In the KEYWORD column, click "Add Keyword" to access the form. You must be logged in to use this function. For security and cleanup duty, keywords added via "Add Keyword" are logged with your user id, though currently only moderators can view this information (though that may change in the future.)Use this feature as an ad hoc topic system and replacement for the deprecated bump list register.
Meanwhile, I am laughing my a&& off, because as a senior programmer, I encounter the word all the time. The dictionary even says:
Said of a program or feature that is considered obsolescent and in the process of being phased out, usually in favour of a specified replacement. Deprecated features can, unfortunately, linger on for many years. This term appears with distressing frequency in standards documents when the committees writing the documents realise that large amounts of extant (and presumably happily working) code depend on the feature(s) that have passed out of favour.
But you never should expect the AFholes to exhibit any intelligence, that's for sure. :o)
Jim, he's not dead!
  
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Yes, and live on quite nicely, I am certain.
Who needs 'em anyway? It's not as if most of the news they print can't be found in some form somewhere else! Congratulations!
I think ya got it CaptRon! : )
(Or, written - FReepteenth)
My bold, daring and ill conceived little proposal is that if someone feels compelled to post some news item to the group, and that item is mandated to be linked and not pasted, then the poster is responsible for archiving it for later exploration. I'm sure we can work some off FR line data base out with a Headline, date, source, Title and Freeper to be contacted independent from this forum if the subject needs to be revisited. Perhaps just saving it in our own Favorite Thread area, even though the link is dead, will help us identify the Freeper who posted the original piece and who should be contacted to independently send over the in-no-way-FR-authorized-approved-or-sanctioned text of the usually offending article.
If it's not worth saving for the forum through your own individual effort and on your own personal WORM optical drive or Tandy cassette player, it's not worth posting in the first place.
I, for one, am praying for a cease and desist order from Lew Rockwell.
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