[Lowfer] Ken Cornell's LF Scrapbook

[Jim]

Kind of reminds me of the Heathkit copyright issue that's playing out. Most of 
the US websites have pulled it when requested, but overseas sites still host 
them and, in fact, there's even a batch of them floating around on 
the "torrent" sites (along with the latest music and movies--that's something 
Heathkit could never have forseen thirty or forty years ago).

I definitely don't agree with copyright violations that clearly take dollars 
out of someone's pocket. But I do worry sometimes that we lose "pieces of our 
history" if rare and generally unavailable documents aren't spread around a 
bit. There's a balance in there somewhere...

But my experience has been that once things are "released into the wild" (like 
the Heathkit manuals, and like the LF Scrapbook now has), they tend to 
spread.

73 de
Jim W4JBM

http://www.hamuniverse.com/w4jbm/

"With a soldering iron in one hand, a schematic in the other, and a puzzled 
look on his face..."

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