Dan Brickley wrote: > On 24/5/09 11:15, Dan Brickley wrote: >> On 24/5/09 10:51, Tim Dobson wrote: >>> Hey Guys, >>> >>> Libre.fm should work this to their advantage. >>> >>> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ >>> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/23/2149255&art_pos=5 >> Yep. But bear in mind these remain unconfirmed rumours. We should bear >> in mind that libre.fm is based largely on copying the work of the >> last.fm team, and they deserve to be treated respectfully. It is natural >> for users of last.fm to be looking around for work-a-like systems that >> have different privacy policies and risks, and libre.fm should be there >> with a clear message deserving of links from techcrunch, slashdot etc. >> But there's no need for anyone hear to bad-mouth last.fm to achieve this... > > I'll just follow up on this briefly in case it is misread: I don't mean > to suggest that anyone here (last of all Tim) is bad-mouthing last.fm > currently. Just that we should avoid any temptation to do so that is > posed by the current rumours...
Absolutely. Thanks for clarifying your point though. :) From my PoV, I saw people (Matt) deleting their last.fm accounts, saying "dude, checkout libre.fm" seems like a good plan. I have a lot of respect for the last.fm technical team and they get more flak than they deserve anyway... Tim _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
