Hey when the pot (kettle) is black.  Well you know what they say. ;)

Joseph R. Gruber
joseph.gruber@gmail.com
http://www.josephgruber.com


On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Michael S. Hart <hart@pglaf.org> wrote:

Yes, you ARE trying "to stir up an old pot"
and I would appreciate it if you stop.

Thanks!!!


Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg
Inventor of ebooks


Recommended Books:

Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury:  For The Right Brain
Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson:  To Understand The Internet
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster:  Lesson of Life. . .


On Sat, 9 May 2009, Joseph R. Gruber wrote:

> Not to stir up an old pot but for those who are not use to bowerbird please
> realize that these are wild fantasies of his and you'll never see such an
> application materalize.  So now worry about the PG trademark or anything
> else he is spewing.  Heck, I'm still waiting for his version of DP that he
> was going to build that was SOOOO much better.
> Joseph R. Gruber
> joseph.gruber@gmail.com
> http://www.josephgruber.com
>
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:50 AM, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > michael said:
> > >   but somehow misinterpreted what the point is
> > >   about taking out the PG trademark which is
> > >   totally unnecessary unless HE is now commercial.
> >
> > i might charge a fee for my reader-program,
> > just to demonstrate that it has value to people,
> > but it won't be a very substantial price if i do...
> > and i'd probably offer a free counterpart too,
> > to reap the reward that would come from that.
> >
> > my main point would be to push the envelope
> > on the functionality a viewer-app should give,
> > and to demonstrate benefits of keep-it-simple.
> >
> > and very few of the iphone e-book viewer-apps
> > have desktop counterparts, at least at present,
> > so that's another missing-link that i'd provide...
> >
> > but the major capability i see missing at this point
> > -- in terms of the project gutenberg e-texts --
> > is an ability to download en masse with one click.
> > lots of copies keeps stuff safe, plus it also guards
> > against corporations restoring artificial scarcity...
> >
> > and yeah, all of the books will also be "in the clear",
> > regularized in regard to their zen markup language,
> > on my website, as yet another version in cyberspace.
> >
> > most of the other jokers doing this put the text in
> > a database, whereas my books are totally exposed,
> > with an easy-to-grok u.r.l. file-naming convention,
> > so other programmers can grab all of them at will...
> > i'll probably echo them on my s3 (amazon!) account.
> >
> > the main reason i eliminated the p.g. boilerplate
> > is because it's so ugly, and it just gets in the way.
> >
> > -bowerbird
> >
> > p.s.  if i do charge a fee for my iphone apps, i'll
> > set aside a portion of the proceeds, not for p.g.
> > per se, but for health insurance for you, michael.
> > i think you deserve that for the role you've played.
> >
> >
> >
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