Laurence Payne wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:05:28 +0100, "jasee"
wrote:

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.


Many manufacturers take the attitude that, if the manuals ARE in pdf
format, it's cheaper and easier to make them freely available for
download. Others feel differently. And it's THEIR call, not ours.

Manufacturers themselves are different, I believe a good manufacturer has an
obligation to allow free download of ALL their equpment manuals. I also
believe that the should make freely available their service manuals for all
their obsolete equipment.

It would also be great if manufacturers followed B&O's example and at least
left a copy of the circuit diagram inside each of their products (if they
still do that).