Hi Joel, On Tuesday 08 Mar 2011 15:41:26 Joel Limardo wrote: > It is (kind of) nice to see that we have not totally dropped this > subject. First off, defamation is defined as making untrue statements > that injure someone's character or otherwise by making public facts > about another that, although true, are not in the public interest (for > example, if a person had a disease).
Maybe. However, someone once told me after I said on a post to a public mailing list that someone else told me on the phone that something about his system was mismanaged, that spreading such rumours in public is considered defamation. Defamation or not, I think we should get Sony (or whoever)'s approval to say they are using Perl, whether or not they do. > Virtually any information that > can be easily obtained by the public cannot be said to be protected -- > for instance, if your webserver returns pages that say 'made with > Perl' it cannot be considered defamatory to aggregate and then > retransmit this information to third parties. That would be as absurd > as suing someone for publishing a list of public accounting firms that > can be easily found in the phone book. I see. > That being said, on certain way to avoid all legal challenges > would be, as you may have guessed, to obtain written permission > beforehand. Right. > The goal of marketing is in part to create awareness. If you have > never heard of widget X nor of it's features and reliability you are > unlikely to use it. Human beings love to ride the bandwagon, so > sometimes telling them that their favorite sports figure drinks cherry > Coke before every game will boost sales. It is a bit of a crap shoot > to figure out what works but I can assure you that doing nothing is > like trying to start a car with a potato battery. Yes, I've discussed my approach to marketing with some people on IRC (including Su-Shee) and they told me we should instead work on preparing some good web-based CMSes for Perl so people can install instead of WordPress or possibly Drupal or whatever, because Perl 5 has very little usable things at the moment. Personally, I think that the advocacy I was told that the advocacy I've done on http://perl-begin.org/ is pretty good. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Rethinking CPAN - http://shlom.in/rethinking-cpan You can never really appreciate The Gilmore Girls until you've watched it in the original Klingon. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
