Online book cataloging

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The best way I thought of sharing my collection of books with my
friends was to put it online. So I developed Gurulib (www.gurulib.com)
along with my wife. Our small home library is listed at
www.gurulib.com/coolabcgirl
You are all welcome to use the service.
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What does this have to do with freeware? All I saw was links to where
you can buy those books from Amazon. If you'd had them online, it
wouldn't have been long before you'd have been facing copyright lawsuits.

--
John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc (who uses sock puppets)
for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
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Hello John,
The thumbnails that you saw over there are the books, movies, music
etc. that I own. The purpose of my website is to help me catalog my
home library. It also helps my friends to see the books, movies and
music I own. The website is perfectly legal. After developing my
website I wrote an email to Amazon telling them about what I am doing,
Interestingly they found it amusing and posted my website on their
Amazon webservice blog. You can read about Gurulib posted in Amazon
webservice blog
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/05/gurulib_organiz.html


Thanks and Regards
Rana Basheer
 
Coolabcgirl said:
Hello John,
The thumbnails that you saw over there are the books, movies, music
etc. that I own. The purpose of my website is to help me catalog my
home library. It also helps my friends to see the books, movies and
music I own. The website is perfectly legal. After developing my
website I wrote an email to Amazon telling them about what I am doing,
Interestingly they found it amusing and posted my website on their
Amazon webservice blog. You can read about Gurulib posted in Amazon
webservice blog
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/05/gurulib_organiz.html
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Thanks for explaining the legality of it, but I already knew that. My
question about how your site and post relate to freeware remains though.
This group is supposed to be for the discussion of freeware.

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc (who uses sock puppets)
for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited
software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.
 
I am providing my webservice free for others to use. When I wanted some
ways to put my home library online the only option that was before me
was to purchase software like delicious monster. I could not find
anything free. So I put some effort into making this web site. When my
friends saw my site, they wanted to put their stuff online too. No I do
have a small group of people using this site. Seeing that something
that I wrote is providing some value for others, I thought of providing
this service for free of all. Thats why I am providing the service
entirely free. I have used several free softwares to make this website.
The website is running from my linux machine in my basement using an
apache webserver. The database is mysql and the scripts are in PHP.
 
Hello John,
What you saw over there is the list of books, movies, music etc, that I
own. Infact it is perfectly legal. After making my site to make sure
that I am not infringing into any copyright issues I send an email to
Amazon. Interestingly enough they found it nice and put them in their
Amazon web service blog. You can read about Gurulib at
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/05/gurulib_organiz.html

My purpose with this website was to help my friends see my home library
at the same time I am able to keep track of my stuff.

Thanks and Regards
Rana Basheer
 
The thumbnails that you saw over there are the books, movies, music
etc. that I own.
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But, as John said, all you did was put up links to Amazon. This has
nothing to do with freeware.
 
Well, the way people see it is that you put up many links to amazon
where you can buy the books you suggest. There are tons of websites out
there that do that.

With all the amazon advertising it looks more like you are a amazon
affiliate who put up a website to sell books, cd's, movies etc. and
disguises this a service to get people to visit the site.

Cheers
 
Coolabcgirl said:
Hello John,
What you saw over there is the list of books, movies, music etc, that I
own. Infact it is perfectly legal. After making my site to make sure
that I am not infringing into any copyright issues I send an email to
Amazon. Interestingly enough they found it nice and put them in their
Amazon web service blog. You can read about Gurulib at
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/05/gurulib_organiz.html

My purpose with this website was to help my friends see my home library
at the same time I am able to keep track of my stuff.
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I never said that you were violating copyrights. I said "*IF* you'd had
them online". You're just throwing out a red herring to avoid discussing
the fact that your site has absolutely nothing to do with freeware.
You're simply an Amazon affiliate who's spamming this group. Perhaps I
should contact Amazon and report you. We'll see how they look on usenet
spamming.

--
John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc (who uses sock puppets)
for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited
software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.
 
Coolabcgirl said:
I am providing my webservice
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What "service"? A bunch of affiliate links to Amazon?
free for others to use. When I wanted some
ways to put my home library online the only option that was before me
was to purchase software like delicious monster. I could not find
anything free. So I put some effort into making this web site. When my
friends saw my site, they wanted to put their stuff online too. No I do
have a small group of people using this site. Seeing that something
that I wrote is providing some value for others, I thought of providing
this service for free of all. Thats why I am providing the service
entirely free. I have used several free softwares to make this website.
The website is running from my linux machine in my basement using an
apache webserver. The database is mysql and the scripts are in PHP.
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Your post has nothing to do with freeware. I'm using Thunderbird to
write this message and it's a freeware program, so using your logic, I
should be able to post messages to this group about anything I want.

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc (who uses sock puppets)
for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited
software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.
 
John Corliss said:
I'm using Thunderbird to write this message and it's a freeware
program, so using your logic, I should be able to post messages to this
group about anything I want.
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You usually do - hence we get to hear about your friends, your holidays,
your bikes, et al.

Hypocrite!
 
John Corliss said:
I never said that you were violating copyrights. I said "*IF* you'd had
them online". You're just throwing out a red herring to avoid
discussing the fact that your site has absolutely nothing to do with
freeware. You're simply an Amazon affiliate who's spamming this group.
Perhaps I should contact Amazon and report you. We'll see how they look
on usenet spamming.
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If you think he's spamming (which he certainly doesn't appear to be);
there are far better ways to deal with the matter. But you've been told
that many times already, and it makes not a blind bit of difference -
you simply blinder on, wasting bandwidth with your pointless huffing and
puffing.
 
Hello Lars,

My intention was not to spam anybody. I really felt that what I am
providing with my website constitutes a freeware. I would like to know
more about what constitutes a freeware. Do I have to provide my html
pages and other scripts for download in a zip format to constitute a
freeware? I have seen several freeware which comes as an executable. I
would frankly say that I am really confused about the definition of
freeware.

Providing a bunch of links to amazon so that people can buy stuff is
not what I intended with my website. My plan was to provide a way in
which people can organize their home library. You might have some
collection of books, movies etc. Have you not felt the need to find
where they are? or if someone borrowed your book dont you want to know
about it. that was my plan. I am really sorry that you guys did not
feel that my effort to provide this website as freeware.

Thanks and Regards
Rana Basheer
 
This meeting of nit pickers anonymous has now ended(hopefully for a
long time)
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There should be a space between "ended" and "(hopefully", and you're
missing an ending period.

;0)
 
The service that I am referring to is a facility for people to organize
their home library. My plan was to provide a site where people with
small home library can catalog their information and share that with
their friends. I thought if I provide some program for free to use
which normally they have to pay money for then it constitutes a
freeware. In that respect I am providing the same facility as delicious
monster program provides for mac. But you need to pay money for that. I
am providing the same feature set for free. Doesn't that make my
website freeware?

When I searched in Google for the definition of freeware I came up with
the following definition

"Freeware is copyrighted computer software which is made available for
use free of charge, for an unlimited time, as opposed to shareware
where the user is required to pay after some trial period."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware
)

According to the above explanation my website surely constitutes as a
freeware and I should have the right to post in this usenet just like
others. I really appreciate you guys for acting as the gate keepers for
preventing unwanted messages. But, before you condemn somebody please
give him a fair chance.

Thanks and Regards
Rana Basheer
 
Mister2u said:
This meeting of nit pickers anonymous has now ended(hopefully for a
long time)
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And now I've lost the url for the program. Could the host/author please
re-send it?

Thanks.
 
The service that I am referring to is a facility for people to
organize their home library.
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Exactly, a "service". A service is not software.
When I searched in Google for the definition of freeware I came up
with the following definition
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That's the wikipedia definition, which is virtually dictated by the OSS
zealots; any attempt to change it to a more reasonable definition is
blocked by them. Better is this defintion (from
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/WareGlossary.php):

Freeware: Legally obtainable software that you may use at no cost,
monetary or otherwise, for as long as you wish.
According to the above explanation my website surely constitutes as a
freeware and I should have the right to post in this usenet just like
others.
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Websites cannot be freeware. They're not any kind of software. They're
data hosted up by a webserver.
I really appreciate you guys for acting as the gate keepers
for preventing unwanted messages. But, before you condemn somebody
please give him a fair chance.
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You've had plenty, but you don't seem to be getting the point.
 
Coolabcgirl said:
My intention was not to spam anybody. I really felt that what I am
providing with my website constitutes a freeware. I would like to know
more about what constitutes a freeware.
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The alt.comp.freeware newsgroup's definition is here:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/WareGlossary.php

"Freeware: Legally obtainable software that you may use at no cost,
monetary or otherwise, for as long as you wish."

Susan
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