No More HP Manuals on BAMA

Wed Apr 27 22:52:48 CDT 2005

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Jay West wrote:

> Regardless... I can definitely see a company protecting their copyright. We
> as collectors should be first and foremost in honoring those copyrights, or
> it will be to our detriment. Of course, then we move to working with them to
> ease up on old gear... but, we should rigorously maintain their copyrights
> as well. That being said, I'm hard pressed to imagine them complaining about
> really old manuals for gear they haven't made in decades. But that's a moot
> point - have to work inside the guidelines of the law.

The letter is pretty suspicious.  Two typos and not very "lawerly".  Sent
by e-mail?  Not withstanding the assumption that the BAMA folks have
actually replied to the message and confirmed it's real.  Does anyone know
if this has happened?

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