Slashdot | The Return of Eric Weisstein's World Of Mathematics

[measl at mfn.org]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:

>     Apparently impervious to irony, CRC at the same time acknowledged in
>     its own court filing that the book was the company's best-selling
>     mathematics title! (This, one month after Mr. Stern had "explained"
>     to me that my book was a back list item that I should not be
>     surprised to see dropped from its promotional materials.)

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>     In addition to its "instant win," CRC will be paid annually for
>     books they don't sell, according to a formula that both sides have
>     accepted--although we continue to believe that any past or future
>     failure to achieve projected sales is far more plausibly attributed
>     to CRC's abysmal marketing efforts than to any abuse of the web site

<snip>

>     Another important change is that, as part of the settlement
>     agreement, CRC Press will now be given permission to create editions
>     of the printed book based on future snapshots of the web site. As a
>     result, CRC insisted that broad reproduction rights to all
>     contributed material be secured. Furthermore, if we are not able to
>     secure such rights, then Wolfram Research and I, at our own expense,
>     must rewrite the entries in question from scratch for CRC to
>     reproduce. 

And he *agreed* to this???

Sorry, but as far as I am concerned, he lost any and all right(s) to bitch
about this when he agreed to the "instant win".

What kind of dipshit would AGREE to these kind of things?

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If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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