[Heathkit] Manuals, copyrights and my 5-cents worth

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I cannot believe how "tight butted" we, as a society, have become about copyrights. Yes, certainly copyright protection has been around for 200 years and it is a good idea so that no mass exploitation can be done without the originator seeing something from his toil. But we are not talking about any large scale profiteering here! Jeez Louise...we're talking about a Joe Schmoe-ham operator who only wants a manual so he can get his vintage rig running! 

Our culture has become unduly hyper-sensitive to this nonsense, largely I believe, thanks to the thin-skinned greed of the software industry and it is spilling over to everything else. In the 50s and 60s we all swapped 45 RPM records and taped them and no one's nose was getting bent out of shape like it is today. 

It would be nice if a little common sense could return to our landscape because otherwise it appears that the charlatans  are squeezing every cent from customers and it serves no one. It creates hard feelings and probably very little profit anyway. People who need a manual are only interested in personal enjoyment of their equipment and nothing more. To pick at this shows just how small the copyright holders are. Thankfully the scribes of hieroglyphics that have taught us so much about our history don't have their descendants monitoring and renewing the knowledge found in Egyptian tombs.

God have pity on their souls when they meet their maker because, if you are a believer, GREED is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

WA9VLK


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