"jasee" wrote in message
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Serge Auckland wrote:

"Mike Cawood, HND BIT" wrote in message
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"jasee" wrote in message
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Mike Coatham wrote:

Somehow it goes against the grain to pay money for this sort of
thing. Although this appears to be an original. I hate these
companies/individuals who are making money out of selling usually
copies of this sort of thing. Information should always be free.
I'm very much in favour of sites like this:

http://www.eserviceinfo.com/

Where manuals are free and you can upload any old manuals to. It
doesn't have your Tandberg manual, but you can request it.

I agree.
They should turn the manuals into pdf files & put them up on a
website for FREE download.

Who are "they"? If you mean a private individual, hobbyist, then I
agree, it is a nice thing to do to. However, if the manual owner is a
commercial organisation, who will pay for the time to scan a large
document and create PDFs? Also, if the commercial organisation in
question sells vintage equipment, why shouldn't they also be able to
make a commercial return on the information they own?

Because very often, or maybe always, they haven't scanned any documents,
they've simply copied someone elses scan or got the pfs from somewhere
else. So the price is out of all proportion to the cost. They don't even
own the copyright anyway.

Whether they own the copyright or not is a matter for the copyright holder,
if they still exist. However, you have not answered the question as to why
should a commercial organisation not make a return on the information they
hold. They are not a charitable or philanthropic institution, so the
alternative to charging for the information is not to make it available at
all. I would rather pay a modest fee (and £ 5 *is* modest) and have the
information than not pay it and not have it.

S.

http://audiopages.googlepages.com