No party to crash here... I don't think anyone has a profit motive with the CD. In fact, Ron made it pretty clear in his post/notice today that any such use of the list is prohibited. Several people are pretty excited about the idea and are willing to volunteer time and get volume discount prices through work on copying the archives to cds. It would be nice to have on the road in a laptop or at other times when you can't sign on-line. It would seem, though, that at some point it will become impractable to put the entire archive on a CD each year...its gotta be huge already. Rick Gordon wrote: > Copyright notices do not have to attached anymore to establish > copyright, > at least in the US. > > This is the first I noticed on the subject of burning a CD. I suppose > it > might be worthwhile occasionally, assuming that it were properly > indexed. > But I would have some questions regarding the ethics of anyone > attempting > to profit off of the contents of this list in such a manner. (I don't > know > if anyuone has suggested doing so but just to crash the party...) > > consider that many people paid cash to move the mailing list over to a > new > server (which now seems to be running well). Also consider that many > people > contribute their time to helping others solve problems on this list. > Is it fair to any of these people to effectively take their time and > money? > > I don't want my text incorporated into a CD that someone else is going > to > make a buck off of, at least without a suitable payment to me! > > I would suggest that any CD produced should be distributed at cost. If > > indexing software needs to be licensed that's part of the cost, but > I'll > bet there are low-cost options available. All production and > manufacturing > costs should be documented and posted. Any money made after costs > should be > rolled back into server maintenance. > > Oh yeah, the CD should work in both my PC *and* my Mac! (And I'll bet > people will want Unix versions as well.) > > -rick > > Rick Gordon > Bainbridge Island, WA, USA > ------------------------------------- > rickgo@halcyon.com > http://www.halcyon.com/rickgo/ > KC7QEG > ------------------------------------- |
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