The Don Maslin Sofware Archive

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "SP" <spedraja at ono.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:52 PM


>> When he died his wife went to the archive and threw the lot on the fire.
>> They never knew why.
>> Tread softly.
>
> Sure. Many times forgot the personal side of one person in front of 
> her/his
> public side. Usually we don't know nothing about the relations with 
> her/his
> most near persons. And logically we don't know about this persons and the
> way he conduct themselves... what's important or not for them... or how 
> one
> lost affects themselves, and even if they can want in some moment to 
> destroy
> any reference of the beloved person to forgot completely any shadow of the
> person in his environment, leaving only something really important for the
> vincule between them.
>
> I'm essentially with Geoff... If you want to see Don's Archive keep and
> safe, take care with the way you manage this matter. And for good or bad,
> today the owner of the Archive is her.
>
> Regards
> Sergio

I've never considered "Don's archive" as personal property.  Don always 
listed it as the DynaSig archive and it was made up of public contributions.

That said Don's wife has possession of the archive and must be dealt with 
properly.  Possession is not to be confused with ownership.

I have an archive, most of it was donated by others to be shared.  I own the 
website it is posted on, I believe I have control if anyone mirrors it.  I 
don't believe I have any control if people take the data and redistribute it 
without the little HTML code that I use as a presentation.

For the record I don't care if anyone mirrors my info or downloads it and 
organizes it as they see fit.

Another archive that I like and do believe in supporting is Herb Johnson's 
private archive.  He controls his and pays for much of the material he 
archives.  At least some of the material he archives must come from 
donations, these donations are not public but private.  Herb makes his 
archive available to those that need it and charges a nominal fee.

In truth the only difference in public versus private archive is in the mind 
of the people.  Since Don always advertised his archive as a public archive 
the fact he charged a nominal fee for the material, postage, and effort it 
was still a public archive.


Randy
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