Hi Behnam, My problem is that: There are people announcing an English-Persian dictionary Free to download, but, I, the Linux user that likes a dictionary on his machine, cannot use the same data. Why? Because the Mac distributer has simply closed his eyes on the copyright status of the data. Again, I said, I would not mind if Ali puts a proper note about the copyright status of the data below the download link in his site.
But the main point, Behnam, is that, it's not a friendly game that you say Ok let him do it or not. You are being generous by spendings someone else's efforts! behdad On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Behnam wrote: > In the middle of nowhere, suddenly a heated discussion (from the > middle!) was dumped on list members! > From what I understand, this is about copyright issue with regard of > Arianpoor dictionary. > Well, the printed version has been around for many years now and > Arianpoor brothers should be the sons of the original author. It's been > updated regularly and this is maybe carried on by the sons. The > electronic version as I understand, is widely available on the internet > for PC users. > What Ali is trying to do is to provide to Macintosh users the same > tools and utilities that are freely available for PC users. The issue > of copyright should be discussed in another level and finger pointing > to such a small community of Persian computing for such a large issue > doesn't solve any problem and frankly it's not fair. Ali is not the > source of copyright infringement (if there is any) and he provided the > source of his database. > All Ali wants to do is to provide some level of facilities to Mac users > that PC users take them for granted. > For grand social issues let's start with grand market. Iranian > Macintosh User Group is too young, too small and too fragile - and by > its singularity- too visible and shouldn't be targeted for such issues. > Behnam _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
