> > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Cini, Richard wrote:
> > > How do we protect ourselves? My plan, frankly, is to continue with
> > > my efforts until someone tells me to stop.
> > I say tally ho old chap. That's probably the best course of action. Just
> > post the material to at least make it useful until which time you are
> > explicitly told by the copyright holder to remove it. The worst they can
> > do is ask you to remove it (cease and desist).
> Might as well keep this stuff alive as long as there is a need for it and
> as long as the original copyright holder has no plans for it. As long as
> the original copyright holder is no longer marketing it and it's not being
> sold for a profit then I don't see an ethical dilemma.
> No ethical dilema here! I don't feel bad about posting this stuff at
> all because (1) the equipment isn't being sold any more, (2) the docs have
> been left to rot by the original owner and (3) the docs are too valuable to
> the vintage computing community to not make them available.
Well, there's another, now way in depth article on /.
about Abandonware, which is way close to our theme:
http://www.slashdor.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/16/1512238&mode=thread
Gruss
H.
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