"I work at a software company and am an engineer by profession
so i know this is technically possible"
I hate it when people say this. Just because you also happen to work for a completely different company in the same industry, it doesn't give you any insight whatsoever into how things operate anywhere else.
The point he was making is that he knows that it is possible to supply a digital download link. I think it absolutely does give him the insight into the range of things that are possible within the industry. Whether or not the company is willing to provide such a thing is a completely different question, but technical possibility is what he was attempting to communicate...
> EFF maintains a list of attorneys, called the Cooperating Attorneys list, who have told us that they are passionate about the same things we're passionate about, and who have indicated that they have some of the same areas of expertise. If we can't help you, but feel that your case is something our cooperating attorneys may be able to assist with, we'll offer to refer you to one of them.
That's a bit of a whiny comment! Use something else if you don't like the Urls. Urls are less relevant these days anyway. Who types Urls anymore? Or who even looks at them?
Who types URLs or looks at them? If you write URLs in an email, print them on a business card, put them on a poster, say them in a conversation, or basically need anybody who isn't already using a web browser to go to your page, you type URLs and look at them (or hear them). Hearing is the worst offender.
- Hey there, you should check out this really cool site/post/app/thing!
- That sounds nice, where should I go?
- You go to uh.. googledrive dot com slash host slash zero capital B ehh... forget it.
There is a reason that facebook gave their users vanity URLs, and twitter user URLs are so minimalist, and people pay millions for domain names. A shorter URL is more useful and hence more valuable.
Having the option to point your own domain at the folder would be really nice, actually, and put this on the same tier as Github Pages and S3.
You would never put a link like this on a business card or relay it in person anyway. You'd probably just hyperlink some text on a blog or in an email. It's pretty clear that this isn't a permanent web hosting solution.
Google is no charity, sure. But they make it easy for people to develop web apps, prototype and monkey with web content, they allow people to share their work with a simple click, but GOD the URLs are not good enough for some random dude on the Internets, we'd better throw our arms in the air and get all snarky about it.
With this trend of negativity I guess we've found the cure for mortality. It gets REALLY old but somehow never dies.
> If you go to a lawyer for legal advice and then refuse to pay him saying "I haven't deprived you of a tangible product so it's not really stealing" you are missing the point, it's still theft.
That is theft because you've robbed the lawyer of his opportunity cost. For the time he was spending giving you legal advice, he could have been giving it to someone else that would pay him.
A more apt analogy would be secretly listening in on a lawyer giving legal advice to a paying client. You haven't taken anything away from him or the paying client, and all you've done is "copied" what was being heard anyway.
Actually it's most certainly not theft. It's probably categorized as breach of contract -- though don't take my word here. Regardless you've just ended up proving his point.
I sincerely apologize if it came out as a spam. I really did not mean to. I spent over a week building the whole template and the dashboard and really thing it is useful for startups.
I stepped overboard with the feeling to tell everyone. Really sorry about that.
