what BS

[Lyle Bickley]

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
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com

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