[ARC5] ARC-2 manual

[kgordon2006 at frontier.com]

On 2 Apr 2014 at 19:33, Fuqua, Bill L wrote:

>  Why do we have to pay for access to documents that the tax payer paid for 70 years ago and should
> be in public domain?

Well, yes, the original documents are in the public domain, but it costs time and money, 
sometimes plenty of both, to make good, readable, usable copies of those documents, since 
most of the originals were destroyed or lost or just plain worn out.

Have you ever made a GOOD copy of a military manual? From experience, it takes a heck of 
a lot of time, and no little money to make a good copy. Making a copy at Kinkos, even having 
them do it, saving me the time, of the Manuals I have for the RBB/RBC costs at least $85.

I have absolutely no problem paying what I have to pay for a GOOD copy. Since I bought it, 
and it is in the public domain, that means I can copy it myself and either give away, or sell the 
copy or publish it on the web.

If it was NOT in the public domain, I could do none of those things without having to pay the 
copyright holder a fair price for his intellectual property.

Anyway, there IS an archive of military manuals that is free to any citizen. I can't remember 
how to get to it, but it isn't "intuitive". Someone here may know. In any case, that archive does 
NOT have all the manuals we would need either. As I remember it, it is named LOGSA or 
something like that.

Ken W7EKB