[WEB4LIB] RE: Icons

[Rutherford, John (Library)]

Yes, I would second that policy, and think it would be useful if letters
were sent to management at these companies stating that their software
would no longer be purchased due to restrictive (and in many cases
useless) legal policies. I think in many cases top management does not
know what their lawyers are instituting policies of this type. The same
could apply to traditional publishers that place restrictive requirements
on electronic versions of their print products.

It would be interesting to see a large research library drop an entire line
of publications from a large publisher because of restrictive policies that
differ from those placed on paper. Losing a large customer (and being
informed
of the reason) might cause management to ask their legal departments
for explanations of why copying an application icon to a kids web page is
a legal problem worth sacrificing a sale.

John Rutherford


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Lester [mailto:dan at 84.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 6:34 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Icons


At 12:48 PM 6/10/99 -0700, Matthew Burrell wrote:
>  Aside from designing my own pretty pictures, (ha =
>ha), does anyone have a suggestion? TIA.

Switch software.  Don't use software from companies where the lawyers run 
the place instead of managers with common sense.

dan

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