IPST Day follow-up

[truepenny]

bloggasm has an article up about International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, including further commentary from Dr. Hendrix (also jaylake and papersky and a brief quote from me).

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Astonishing. O_O

Can I repost this to the sfwa community? I'm not sure if you're part of it...?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

1. I'm not a member of SFWA and, no, not a member of the sfwa community.

2. It's not my article. My permission is entirely beside the point.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

No, but it is polite to ask when linking to things other people have linked, sometimes. The sfwa community is for members and non-members of SFWA, so I thought I'd check.

[nomissnewo.livejournal.com]

As the person who wrote the article, you have permission to post it. not that you need permission to do so, as Sarah said.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Thank you (also: hi!).

After some thought, I can clarify why I asked: in situations where two people might be involved in the same community, reposting their links before they have a chance to post them, if they "found" the link originally, is sometimes considered rude. Since I wasn't sure if truepenny was part of that community (since it is a forum for SFWA and non-SFWA members, I couldn't reasonably rule her out), I thought it would be polite to ask, is all.

Thanks for the follow-up material, though. :)

[carandol.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I was a bit puzzled by

"[Hendrix] described Technopeasants as subscribing to a libertarian’s messianic-faith-in-capitalism idea."

Since when did giving things away show a "messianic-faith-in-capitalism"?

[papersky.livejournal.com]

That bit totally threw me as well. I had to read it twice to believe it said what it seemed to say. Um, what? Especially if he means me!

Eric Flint (http://bigbananaslug.livejournal.com/35996.html) has a terrific rebuttal of Hendrix's original rant.

[carandol.livejournal.com]

Well, quite. This is Jo "Insufficiently Capitalistic" Walton we're talking about here!

Yes, a good rebuttal from Eric Flint. (Hmm, must have a look at 1632!).

[nomissnewo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't really know what he was talking about either when he told me that. His answers were very dense and convoluted.