Jeff Cheney: RothenbergMiscellaneous memes from Matthew of MaplewoodNaming-and-shaming on Slashdot: better than hiring a lawyer- August 9, 2004 Cory Doctorow: This is wild. ZiffDavisEWeek sent a threatening letter to pocketpctools.com for quoting one of their articles with a link back to the EWeek site. About two hours later, on a Sunday night, a ZDEW rep had managed to get the entire action abandoned and written a letter of retraction that Slashdot published. That's pretty amazing: I think that even the highest-priced attorney in the land would be hard pressed to get that kind of action in that timeframe.Boing Boinghttp://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/09/namingandshaming_on_.html Tempest in a Teapot- August 9, 2004 Ziff Davis To Website: License To Link, UpdatedSlashdothttp://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/08/237214 |