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An opening for OpenOffice.org + [OT] suggestion

An opening for OpenOffice.org + [OT] suggestion

Posted Sep 11, 2003 13:57 UTC (Thu) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760)
In reply to: An opening for OpenOffice.org by beejaybee
Parent article: An opening for OpenOffice.org

What about making a Copy Paste of part of the article and pass it on to your maanagement.

I sometimes do that for some friends, in order to convince to subscribe to LWN, I pass them titles ant/or extracts of interesting articles, then put the link underneath, with a mention such as "available now to subscribers, or in one week if you're not. Subcsribe it's worth it!".

I would like to know what LWN think about this. Perhaps they could endorse that method with a 'refer that article' option. The user would select part of the article, and LWN would send a mail from the registered user to a specified address with a text like:

<USER> wanted to share this piece of news with you.

<CUSTOM USER MESSAGE>

<PART OF ARTICLE SELECTED>

<LINK to page>
Full article available now to subscribers, or in one week if you're not. Subcsribe it's worth it!


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An opening for OpenOffice.org + [OT] suggestion

Posted Sep 12, 2003 4:35 UTC (Fri) by miallen (guest, #10195) [Link]

That's copyright infringment! Fortunately once LWN has IRM installed on their servers you will not be permitted to do that.

An opening for OpenOffice.org + [OT] suggestion

Posted Sep 12, 2003 8:47 UTC (Fri) by jwharmanny (guest, #971) [Link]

Does anyone know by what license LWN articles are covered? I didn't find anything apart from the Eklektix copyright message at the end of the page. Are readers allowed to copy the content?

(No, I didn't plan to copy-paste the weekly edition to slashdot. ;) I'm just curious.)

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