[mythtv-users] THIS IS A NON-COMMERCIAL MAILING LIST

[Thomas Mashos]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>
>>  > Meanwhile, Chris has just forbade us from helping support tuner cards,
>>>
>>>  cable cards, remote controls, HTPC cases and motherboards, etc..
>>>  all of which are "commercial" products.
>>
>>
>> That's not how I understood his message.
>
>
> Did you read the same message - it was **very** clear, even it it (probably)
> didn't say what he meant to say.
>
> The words he put were "... not to be used for advertisement or support of
> any
> commercial products, whether they be MythTV related or not".
>
> Forbidden is support of any commercial products - so as Mark said (and I
> mentioned earlier) that excludes support of tuners, video cards, remote
> controls, motherboards, cases, TVs, etc, etc. Ie most of what goes on in
> this list.
>
> I dare say he meant "... by their vendors" but he didn't write that. If you
> are going to slap someone down for transgressing the rules, you really ought
> to try and get them right yourself.
>
>
> But the rest of the thread has been quite informative and educational - it's
> certainly given an insight into the personalities of a number of people.
> It's also gone on and created more traffic than the thread that was being
> complained about which would almost certainly have fizzled out of it's own
> accord somewhat sooner.
>
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This is just "the letter of the law" vs "the spirit of the law". Tell
me, if the law requires that sidewalks have a 2% slope toward the
street, and you find one that doesn't (but it is on a 15% slopped
hill), do you write the guy a ticket?