Monday 8 June 2009

When theft isn't theft

Yesterday I wrote a letter to the Guardian. Originally I put quote marks around the word “Theft” in the phrase “Federation Against Software Theft”. In the context of the letter this was unexplained and was as as immature as replacing the “s” in “Microsoft” with a dollar sign (a sure sign of an impending knee-jerk response). It did me no favours and I removed the quote marks (and, for what it’s worth, shamefacedly re-sent the email) but I thought I would explain my aversion to the word theft in this context.

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8 Jun 2009 at Twitter

  • 07:39am: My 1st retweet, sorry but: RT @samuelpepys: I do find great reason to think that we are beaten in every respect, and that we are the losers.
  • 04:01pm: Just bought my first Rolling Stones album, Beggars Banquet. I wish more modern music sounded so clear. Instruments are so stereo separated.
  • 05:10pm: Watching the Apple Keynote in slow-page-refresh-o-vision. YouTube would be like this if moving images had never been invented.
  • 06:21pm: @ianbetteridge Am I going to have to click a link to read the final few words of all your tweets from now on?