I agree completely with the sentiment. Copyright is important (and Ten
Tec has the same interest in their manuals, there are manual sellers
who have not gotten permission from them to copy.... but that's another
story.)
Now, if we want to help change this sort of behavior, I think there are
better ways to approach it. The ethics of the list are not an issue,
neither is the price of the Orion. Someone has little respect for
copyright and it may be out of ignorance, lots of other benign reasons,
or it may be a personal lack of ethics. It could be greed, but I
don't know.
I like to challenge my students (software writers) to market their own
work. That changes attitudes toward copyrights (well, other than my
Linux guys who prefer open source out of a genuine ethical stance!)
I don't know exactly what would work here, but the main force that
keeps my attitude straight is having been part of a conversation
regarding the copying of Ten Tec manuals without permission or royalty.
Almost as personal to me as my own work :-) I won't violate that
one, and it carries over to everything else. Keeps me straight on the
issue.
Clark
WA3JPG
On Dec 15, 2006,-
Dennis
Your right on. Seems strange that this ham is interested in a $4000.00
radio, but can't find the $3.00 for the ARRL review.
Let us grow some ethics on this list... There is a huge difference
between
shared information, such as open discussion of the report, and
flagrantly
Clark Savage Turner, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA. 93407
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