Thank you for running Copyleft for so long. It was wonderful.
Copyleft is the place where I bought my <BODY> T-shirt. (It was a quality T-shirt, and it has lasted the years well.) I ordered a Debian sticker from them about a year ago, and it never came. I guess I must have ordered after the owner closed up shop.
I’d be upset, but really, Copyleft has a special place in my heart. (And it was only a couple of bucks.) If you Google the company name and its former owner, you discover that the owner has moved on to another company. And Copyleft was the place that sold the potentially illegal DeCSS T-shirt. So, I sent this email to Steve[n] Blood:
Dear Steve Blood,
I noticed that when I went to http://www.copyleft.net/ that I got “file
not found” errors. As I was becoming acquainted with Free Software in the
late ’90s, Copyleft was there to let me speak my mind through clothing.Since then, my interest in Free Software and EFF’s mission have only
increased. My iBook G4 laptop runs GNU/Linux; I filed written testimony
in the EFF case OPG v. Diebold. I waited on the steps of the Supreme
Court on March 29 to hear the oral arguments in MGM v. Grokster. I
discuss digital freedom issues with artists and engineers alike in
college.Thank you for running Copyleft for so long. It was wonderful. I miss it,
though I recognize that surely you have moved on.Sincerely,
Asheesh Laroia
P.S. I made this an open letter by publishing it on the web (with some
more comments) at http://blogs.jhu.edu/users/paulproteus/18910.html .
I’d be honored if you read the extra notes I made there.–
AMAZING BUT TRUE …
If all the salmon caught in Canada in one year were laid end to end
across the Sahara Desert, the smell would be absolutely awful.