Public excuses from 1000bit.net webmaster

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Sun, 8 May 2005, Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:

> There is something I don't understand.
>
> How can you have a policy that "all the material present on the site is
> absolutely freely usable" if the site includes material your users didn't
> give permission to share?  If I were to post information or photos on your
> site, I would assume it's only for that purpose.
>
> It is unethical to open-source things that you don't own.  That is stealing.

I don't presume to speak for Tiziano but I think the intent was that
anything that was uploaded was supposed to be owned by the uploader and
was to be made freely downloadable by visitors and other users.  Tiziano
perhaps didn't think that people would be uploading content they found
elsewhere on the Internet.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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