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Weblog:   Movable Type 3.0 and Eating.
Subject:   Is Mena eating properly?
Date:   2004-05-14 07:12:26
From:   comingupforair
after your article, i was relieved to see mena was looking healthy and well-fed in her photo.


perhaps in your next article you can check up on radiohead to ensure they're also eating properly in this era of rampant file-sharing.


also, to call MT users 'cheap' is just plain wrongheaded. you're talking about a community of artists and writers - ranging from the erudite to the illiterate - who enrich the internet on a daily basis with their words and images. for most of whom, the thought of being paid (however absurd or reasonable) doesn't cross their mind. why? because the very spirit of blogging is that information wants to be free. it only makes sense that they're going to use a platform that embodies this principle.


it comes down to this: we suspected six apart weren't in touch with their users before and now we know they weren't.


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  • Timothy Appnel photo Please.
    2004-05-14 07:33:10  Timothy Appnel | O'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

    This community of artists and writers then can use emacs or notepad with FTP to express themselves. That's like saying Apple should give away their G5's because artists and writers use would their machie to enrich the Internet.

    I ran a music zine for years (at a loss -- for years) and met many a starving artist. (I was one of those starving writers.) I know that even the successful artist really never got duly compenstated for their work. So I absolutely support artists and writers getting compenstated. Two wrongs don't make a right though.

    Writing software of the quality they have takes talent and a lot of work. Supporting it and working with the community even more. Posts like your are the type that dishearten me and my profession because it shows a lack of appreciation for what I and others do.

    They are a young business trying to learn what it means to be just that -- a business. Could this have been handled better? Yes. Mistakes are bound to happen. Cut them some slack and stop being so insulting.
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