- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:45:30 -0700
- To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Cc: "Lucas Gonze" <lgonze@panix.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
I think it's even worse than that. There is no locality on the web. Assigning a URL is something that is entirely within the power of the resource owner, and nobody forces the resource owner to assign a URI or even maintain it after they assign it. The analogy is like taking the pile of logs to the middle of the junkyard which has a sign outside saying "all stuff in this junkyard is free". > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:28 PM > To: Bullard, Claude L (Len) > Cc: 'Lucas Gonze'; 'www-tag@w3.org' > > > Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > > If a person breaks into your house and steals your jewelry, > > is it theft when they entered through an unlocked door? > > The analogy is more like someone has a pile of logs in a front yard with > no fence and a sign pointing at them saying "Logs here" and nobody > hanging around. It's probably not theft if you walk away with one. If > the lawn has a yard and a gate and the gate's closed and you break > through it, it is. > > > There is nothing wrong with that. > > Indeed. -Tim
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