jasoncsc
Heliman
Location: Hong Kong
| Caliber 30 photoHi guys,
To David, Brian, Todd, Mark and Iain, thank you for your various opinions and sorry that I have occupied some bandwidth of this site for a complaint. I would like to take up some more bandwidth here to make something clear, sorry Mark.
Iain, aside for the Caliber 30 bit, I have to congratulate you on your page well done. I do not see a lot of pages from the OZ, and I think yours would serve your community well. You have a good heart, no doubts about it, because as a webmaster myself I know how much work each webmaster has to go through to put their page online for others to enjoy. (Not to say those who do not have a web page does not have a good heart, I am glad that most people in this hobby possess a good heart) Next time, before you "cut and paste" someone's work, please send the author a note and get his permission before you put it online. I think most webmaster would be more than happy to give you permission to do so. Put yourself in my shoes, what would you feel if one of your pages that you put resources into writing suddenly turn up in someone else's site without letting you know?
Brian, for those who would like to put a link to my site or even would like to cut and paste contents of my page into yours. If you do, just send me a e-mail about your desire, and most of the times I would agree if its not for business purpose. The main point is just to let me know about your action before you put the page online. In this case, Brian, you are more than welcomed to use contents in my page for yours if required, my only request from you would be the information should be only used not for a business.
Todd, its not about money issue, but more on moral. Yes I do have the resource to serve web pages, cause I own an ISP, so its incremental cost for me to put up pages to serve on my servers. However, does that morally justify someone who cut and paste my work without my previous consent? In addition, if the intent of me putting up resources to write is, according to you, "not doing all that work for us!", then please enlight me who I am doing it for? With all due respect, Todd, it seems that you are saying its ok to take from me without my previous consent because I make myself available for my own enjoyment? Putting up a web page for all to enjoy, and having someone who cut and paste works of others into theirs' without the author's previous consent are completely different issues. In simple, one is "share" and another one is "plagiarism", my friend, and these two words are not synonymous to each other.
I make my page available because like most in this hobby I once had a lot of questions to ask, and wasted quite a bit of money, so I put up my page to try to help solve problems of others in this hobby. Call me naive, I am in this respect! I think this "naive" bit is one of the characteristics of most "not for profit" webmasters who put up their resource to write web pages of this hobby for others to enjoy. Am I right, Mark?
Regards,
Jason |
Say it aint so, not another "face only a mother could love" like the Raptor? Hehehe-------BladeRunner.
