* Craig Sanders (cas@taz.net.au) wrote : > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:16:33AM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 12:44:09PM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > > > Adam Langley wrote: > > > > > > > "Error: Copying of text from this document is not allowed. Use > > > > -ignoreperms option to do so anyway" > > > > > > But the whole point of this discussion is that in many cases copying of > > > text IS ALLOWED, despite the author's unreasonable wishes (fair use, > > > yada yada). Please change the error message. > > > > "Error: The author has requested that copying of text from this document be > > forbidden. Use -ignoreperms to do so anyway." > > how about: > > Error: the author of this pdf document has no respect for your fair-use > rights and is part of the world-wide conspiracy to change copyright > into "usageright". use -ignoreperms to stand up for your rights. use > -iamacringingslave to yield. Only if USER_HAS_SENSE_OF_HUMOUR is set to true. Else debian would doubtless get sued for libel by someone[1]. :) -Thom [1] Hey, we should make this part of POSIX. Then it would be easy to push Linux to corporate types - just set it to off and have boring, microsoftian error messages :P
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