Serious breach of copyright -- First post

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 18 June 2006 19:49, David Hoffman wrote:
> * *It appears the page at
> http://www.houfug.org/help/install_freebsd.htmconstitutes a serious
> breach of copyright.  The article, which was
> originally written and posted to the Internet by the owner of the account
> soup at arbornet.org, is falsely attributed to the Houston FUG, whose members
> maliciously removed all reference to its original creator.  On a related
> note, the FUG seems to be part of an organized group to convince all States
> to adopt English as an official language, a bigoted and misguided policy.
> 
> Plagiarism should not be tolerated.
> 
> Thanks.

1) Please go outdoors and ride a bike or something.  You are apparently
   way, way overstressed.

2) Using terms like "malicious" without proof (and it appears the claim
   was completely false based on follow-ups since the user group in question
   added an attribute once they were notified) reduces your credibility
   immensely.  If anything, if the HouFUG were anywhere as litiguous as you
   they could probably bring a civil suit of libel against you. :)  In
   general it works better if one calmly works to resolve disputes instead
   of yelling and screaming and whipping out DMCA notices as the first
   action.

3) FreeBSD is not a political association and has no political ties.  This
   should be rather obvious.  On a general note, if you want to discuss
   issues, it is generally far more credible and useful to include some
   content in your argument besides elementary-school style name-calling.
   You seem to have done this twice in this e-mail for both issues.

4) You also violated FreeBSD mailing list etiquette by cross-posting to
   four mailing lists.  FreeBSD-standards@' charter has to do with
   conformance to computer standards such as POSIX, etc.  Please have the
   courtesy to make sure the lists you are mailing actually discuss what
   you think they discuss before posting in the future as most list readers
   have enough relevant e-mail to wade through as it is.

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