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RE: [xodp] Letter to Department of Justice.

Last I heard, AOL/Time Warner is not a non-profit organization. Perhaps they
should call ODP the "Steve Case Lear Jet Fund" or something.

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* Steve Thomas http://www.wherewithal.com/
* President & CEO The Future of Search
* Wherewithal.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shanti Reichlein [mailto:brigid23@...]
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 5:16 PM
> To: xodp@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [xodp] Letter to Department of Justice.
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> > The biggest legal exposure they have--imho--is with
> > the DOL (Labor), not the
> > DOJ. They are exploiting free labor to yield
> > millions of dollars in
> > revenues. Also, the FCC might have an opinion here,
>
>
> you're joking right? Ever heard of girl scout cookies?
> They generate millions of dollars in revenue and are
> sold by free labor too.
>
> Or hey, what about volunteers who work on
> telethons...bet they are exploited too?
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... you're joking right? Ever heard of girl scout cookies? They generate millions of dollars in revenue and are sold by free labor too. Or hey, what about...
Shanti Reichlein
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Jul 8, 2001
12:57 am

Last I heard, AOL/Time Warner is not a non-profit organization. Perhaps they should call ODP the "Steve Case Lear Jet Fund" or something. * * Steve Thomas...
Steve Thomas
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Jul 8, 2001
2:26 am

... Right. It's the use of unpaid labor to generate revenue for a for-profit organization that is in apparent violation of USA labor laws. Non-profits have a...
Tim Maroney
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Jul 9, 2001
12:49 pm

... http://search.aol.com/cat.adp?id=8081&layer=&from=breadcrumb You see the 468x60 GIFs on the top and bottom of the page, and the big square one on the...
Steve Thomas
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Jul 9, 2001
5:27 pm

... The ones that say "Place an ad for AOL on your site and get $15"? Sure, I see them. You imagine that makes money? Welcome to 2001, Steve. You might ...
Tim Maroney
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Jul 10, 2001
6:43 am

Tim: <RANT> Yahoo alone will make over $500 million in online ads in the next four quarters. The overall market is at least $5 billion per year and is STILL ...
Steve Thomas
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Jul 10, 2001
6:45 am

... "Yahoo alone" being the operative words. (Only AOL is even in the same revenue range, but for all their advertising revenue, they're not selling any...
Tim Maroney
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Jul 11, 2001
12:32 am

My information is this: 1) Ads make money (they are not free)--even if they are "internal", they are still worth money (viz. they are selling something, which ...
Steve Thomas
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Jul 11, 2001
1:29 am

... Just for reference, the above does not represent my position. It represents only another attack upon a straw man. -- Tim Maroney tim@......
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Jul 11, 2001
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Ok then Tim, what IS your position. Or do you even have one? * * Steve Thomas http://www.wherewithal.com/ * President & CEO The Future of Search...
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Jul 11, 2001
9:31 pm

... My position is (1) that you appear to be mistaken in attributing "millions, if not hundreds of millions" of revenue to AOL's use of ODP, (2) that such a ...
Tim Maroney
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Jul 12, 2001
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That's my position, not your position. What is YOUR position? What do you think ODP is worth? * * Steve Thomas http://www.wherewithal.com/ * President...
Steve Thomas
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Jul 12, 2001
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[Tim Maroney (responding to Steve Thomas):] ... ODP's operating costs are quite insignificant and easily overlooked. As such, AOL probably books all ODP...
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Jul 11, 2001
4:32 am

I think it's about time WWA stopped trying to blow a bunch of hot air attacking ODP when they've got their own "pile of stench" to clean up. Fact: WWA has...
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Jul 11, 2001
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[Ballad of Jayne:] ... A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will, or against his will, he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by...
David Prenatt
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Jul 11, 2001
12:53 am

[Steve Thomas wrote previously:] ... [Tim Maroney rejoined:] ... This is a gross misstatement of the applicable law. Non-profit status is primarily used as a...
David Prenatt
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Jul 11, 2001
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... Thank you for the correction. -- Tim Maroney tim@......
Tim Maroney
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Jul 11, 2001
3:44 am

[Steve Thomas:] ... I see many problems with the Department of Justice (DOJ) making a case against AOL, but I don't see the relevance of the particular point...
David Prenatt
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Jul 11, 2001
1:32 am

... company as ... media ... Although there may be no such company as "Netscape", this is from the ODP information page... "The ODP is hosted and administered...
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Jul 8, 2001
5:08 pm

[Steve Thomas:] ... See netscape and aol/time-warner, part two, by Jamie Zawinski. (< http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/aoltw.html >.) Humbly Yours, XODP Moderator...
David Prenatt
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Jul 11, 2001
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Hey - Steve - I LIKE you and your brain. I'm a wherewithal editor - I'm going back to work more there. My site's suffering due to that friggin ODP. Wish we...
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Jul 9, 2001
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