[TenTec] Orion reviews

[Clark Savage Turner]

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