At 01:07 PM 5/26/00 +1, Guass wrote:
>> > 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
There's a typo in the URL. Try this one;
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http://www.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/16/1512238&mode=thread"
Joe
Received on Fri May 26 2000 - 07:58:36 BST