Re:An Open Letter to Craig Newmark
by SilasX on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @03:06PM
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Isn't krrb just doing what you said they have the right to do "posting the same content elsewhere"?
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Re:An Open Letter to Craig Newmark
by stan_rogers on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @08:52PM
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It's not merely "the same content", it is content automatically sourced from Craigslist, and while that may seem like a picayune distinction, it is not.
It's not automatic. A user has to click a button on his bookmark bar for it to happen.
CL seems to have a stone age version of automatic. A cave man would think a cigarette lighter automatically creates fire, but it just technology that's improved.
Instead of rubbing sticks together for a half hour we can make fire with flick of our thumb. We still had to do something.
Higher productivity != automation and shouldn't be used as an arbitrary measure of legality.