Not quite. The "green card" lawyers in question, Canter & Siegel, took a lot of well-deserved abuse for being one of the first spammers, not for simply "put[ting] an ad on the internet".
Uh, no. If you develop something under contract to the US Gov't, the contract usually gives the Gov't ownership of the result. However, government-owned =/= public domain, although it appears some people believe it should.
Re: Re: Can I sign up with his company? (as Rlee)
You gotta be careful how cut-n-paste from search results; you wound up with ellipses in the link as well as the text. Try this: Calyx Internet Access.
Re: (as RLee)
Not quite. The "green card" lawyers in question, Canter & Siegel, took a lot of well-deserved abuse for being one of the first spammers, not for simply "put[ting] an ad on the internet".
Re: Scale modeling (as SpammersAreScum)
Uh, no. If you develop something under contract to the US Gov't, the contract usually gives the Gov't ownership of the result. However, government-owned =/= public domain, although it appears some people believe it should.
Re: This reminds me ... (as SpammersAreScum)
I heard of that one some years ago. Apparently it's been there for decades.
Re: This reminds me ... (as SpammersAreScum)
I heard of that one some years ago. Apparently it's been there for decades.