From wank_report
I had this pointed out to me by a buddy who'd spotted it. I know nothing about any of this, so I'm just prettifying it a bit.

More print SF wank. Kind of a followup to this one.


Andrew Burt, VP of SFWA, also runs Critters, an online critique group full of aspiring authors. Well, in our weekly notes, we're encouraged to check it out, boys and girls! Cory Doctorow is the enemy of author's rights, and he's gunning for Ursula K. Le Guin!

Note that Doctorow is Canadian. Blame Canada!

Burt links to Pournelle's polemic.

Pournelle links to LeGuin's story on Boing Boing AND to web.archive.org (kinda fubar, sorry) 'cause that nasty, tricksy Doctorow will surely hide the evidence.

Burt said yesterday, that nasty, tricksy Doctorow was snubbing poor Le Guin. Doctorow has edited his post. (He's HIDING THE EVIDENCE, ZOMG, JUST LIKE POURNELLE SAID HE WOULD!!! Of course, if he didn't he would be SNUBBING LE GUIN ZOMG!!!)

They both made much of the Creative Commons License they say Doctorow placed on Le Guin's work. The default footer of Boing Boing does indeed contain a Creative Commons License statement, but I somehow doubt that's part of an evil conspiracy to take food out of Le Guin's mouth, as that's been part of Boing Boing's footer for years (since at least 2003, according to web.archive.org).

Update!

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Another update courtesy of the mousie!

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From the comments (thanks cheshyre!)