[Amps] No more HP/Agilent manuals on BAMA

[Will Matney]

Gary,

In that case, I wouldn't put it past it that one of those manual websites is behind it. Those guys, for the prices they charge, remind me of a few used car salesmen I know. The ones who wear the checkerd jackets, dont bathe, and chew on a cigar! There office is generally in a small portable building, you know they type. They give 0 for a used car and try to sell it for $$$$$$... That makes me wonder who they know at Agilent to get an attorney to write a letter. One would think there's more to running a large corporation than searching the internet for folks who give away free, old, books! Now here, where I live, that sounds like our small town police, who set at a stop light all day trying to find some little something so they can write a ticket. It's funny that the town may have 100-150 folks, but has 7 police! The reason I'm mentioning this is, in my opinion, this is what is flat ruining America these days. If that is captialism, I dont want any part of it. If they'd just find somebody like F.D.R. again for the Whitehouse, these lawyers would sull up in a corner.

I'm done ranting, sorry for it. That just hit a nerve as the owner of BAMA has really helped me in the past.

Best,

Will

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On 4/25/05 at 10:05 AM Gary Schafer wrote:

>It may actually come down to some of the "manual merchants". Agilent has 
>a small list of them on their web site where old HP manuals and copies 
>can be purchased. They may have struck a deal with Agilent and are 
>pressuring Agilent to get the free stuff of the web?
>
>This same thing went on with Collins radio a few years ago. The Collins 
>collector group made a deal with Collins to sell their old manuals. 
>Collins sent a letter to Bama and others forbidding them to distribute 
>the free manuals. This was apparently at the prompting of the Collins 
>collector group.
>I believe that some of that has now been relaxed??
>
>73
>Gary  K4FMX
>
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>Will Matney wrote:
>> What HP-Agilent did there is the most prickish behavior I've ever seen!
>The only reason they could be upset is that they still want to try and
>sell copies of old manuals! Now if that aint being tight, I dont know what
>it is. I'll sure tell um one thing, I'll think twice about buying a new HP
>or Compaq computer, and or any piece of test equipment they've made or
>will make. That's surely what's known as being low enough to crawl under a
>snakes belly.
>> 
>> I'll tell you what would really dig at um. Have someone to host the
>manuals where copyright laws dont extend. That goes on now with the server
>for WinMX I think for downloading music. I think they're home office is on
>an island somehwere around the Phillipienes, I cant remember where. I do
>know Sony and a few others tried to shut it down, and flat couldn't. If
>that government dont accept US copyright law, then the copyright holder is
>screwed. In HP's case, it would be deserving, IMHO.
>> 
>> Will
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>> On 4/25/05 at 12:16 AM John Darwin Powers wrote:
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>>>Please visit the following site for the Agilent letter.
>>>http://bama.sbc.edu/images/Letter%204-18-05.pdf
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