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I'm pretty confused by your argument. How is making a bookmarklet better morally or legally than just using an API, or less self-aggrandizing? Bookmarklets are
by ericd 14y ago
I'm pretty confused by your argument. How is making a bookmarklet better morally or legally than just using an API, or less self-aggrandizing? Bookmarklets are disallowed by the TOU as well. Is it because I'd just be making hammers instead of making and using the hammers myself?
And yeah, I have a bit of a communistic bent, so needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few arguments sway my decisions pretty heavily.
- J3L2404 14y agoIsn't PadLister a direct competitor? CL is right to tell you piss off. No one is falling for this "man of the people" crap, it just makes you look dumb. Sorry to be harsh but you seem to be deceiving yourself, why not start a legitimate business?
- ericd 14y agoPL was more of an insurance policy to collect feeds and other listings directly (it helps people post them back to CL). I'd be happy to take PL down if those were the terms for CL's complicity in keeping the CL search results.
- J3L2404 14y ago>insurance policy...CL's complicity What are you talking about? I can't parse this gibberish. I know you feel CL has no rights to their own site, but what the hell are they complicit in? The further you go down this road the more time you waste.
- ericd 14y agoHave I done something to offend you? I'm just saying that I made that in the hopes that if I ever had to take CL search results off, PadMapper wouldn't be mostly useless. If CL wanted me to take PL down as a condition of them being OK with my site searching theirs, I would make that trade happily. I'm explaining that my goal isn't to replace them/threaten them/etc.