28 Feb
2007
28 Feb
'07
9:20 p.m.
watermarks are annoying. better to report him to ebay for copyrighted
material?
PJ
Lyle Bickley wrote:
Hi Al,
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 18:27, Al Kossow wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160090821802
"After living and breathing my life working on DG equipment, I have put
together an extensive set of manuals for the mininova, nova, Supernova,
eclipse minicomputers life."
How nice. It just happens to match the pdfs from a well known source.
He's done this with other parts of the archive, but this particular add
makes it sound like he actually did some WORK.
At least the guy that's been selling bitsavers stuff in Israel puts the
source in his ads.
Geesh, this is disgusting and irritating.
Unfortunately, there are always slime out there who take advantage of honest
people's work.
The only thing you might do to curtail this kind of "thievery" is to
"watermark" key pages of manuals on bitsavers.
But it's probably not worth it. Most folks are going to discover
"bitsavers.org" and never "buy" what can be downloaded freely.
Besides, most serious collectors already know and value greatly the work
you've done to create bitsavers...
Regards,
Lyle