Anaglyph sez, “I was going to do a post on my blog about Kraft’s new Vegemite product and I visited their official site to find that before you can get access you’re forced to agree to one of the the stupidest legal disclaimers I’ve ever read on the net. To whit: they expressly forbid anyone to link to them!”
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This is like saying “You are prohibited from giving people directions to the Kraft factory.” Putting a link to a URL on your site doesn’t require permission of the linkee. You can say it all you want, but it doesn’t make it true. Still, goes to show you that all the legendary brilliance and efficiency of the consumer packaged goods giants is vastly overrated — what a pack of morons.
Allow me to remind you of Boing Boing’s superior linking policy.
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(Thanks, Anaglyph!
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