[sdiy] Reprinting Electronotes

[Theo]

</nice guy mode>
Sorry but Bernie's "version" seems utter BS to me.
His actions to get online EN material removed include pp who don't sell but
just publish the stuff on line.

PD is PD.
Bernie's past contribution do not justify for him to:
- Impose ownership of the material.
- Bully others who publish part of the material online.
- Sell material others provide as PD for profit.

If the EN material is indeed so valuable to the DIY community,
Bernie's _present_ behavior damages the community by making
the material hard to get. I'll say he has made up for his past work :(

Maybe if I had paid Bernie $$$$ for a pile (ok, a large one) of photo
copies,
I would feel different too. After all we all want our money worth.

Luckily there is a very large amount of good resources available online for
free these days,
making live without EN a option (and save some trees in the process).
Still IMO it just sucks that one ****** manages to prevent the spread of
material that should be available freely.

Theo



From: Grant Richter <grichter at asapnet.net>



> The way Bernie Hutchins tells it...
>
> Back when the wave of "vintage" synth fever came up, a number of websites
> appeared offering the "Preferred Circuits Collection" and other
Electronotes
> material for sale. These were scams where crooks would just take the money
> and not send anything back.
>
> Bernie took all the heat for this, since the innocent victims did not know
> they were dealing with criminals using the name Electronotes, and not the
> real Electronotes.
>
> So Bernie came down hard on anyone advertising the Electronotes material,
> since he could not tell the sincere enthusiasts from the criminals
> defrauding people of their money and ruining his good name.
>
> While I can believe Bernie could accidentally screw up an order, I know he
> is an honest, sincere and well meaning person. This list would not exist
> without his efforts.
>
> I would also like to thank Ric Jansen, John Simonton, Terry Michaels,
Lester
> Ludwig, Ian Fritz, Jim Patchell, John Talbert and several hundred other
> really great guys who's generosity, public spirit and good citizenship
made
> Electronotes, Polyphony, and this list possible. Thank you all, your MY
> hero's.
>
> I bet if everyone put their profits together from electronic music books
and
> periodicals, they would have only lost a collective million bucks or so...
>
>
> > From: "Barry Klein" <Barry.L.Klein at wdc.com>
> > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:25:54 -0800
> > To: "synth diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> > Subject: RE: [sdiy] Reprinting Electronotes
> >
> > Anyone who is willing to take subscriptions from 4-500 people, go to the
> > hassle of answering all the inquiries, go to the post office to pick up
a
> > bunch of registered letters and sign for them, take personal checks, get
> > money orders in foreign currency and return them, publish the old stuff,
> > write the new stuff, build the circuits to verify they work, and then
teach
> > classes in a university (or whatever he did), do this without a
computer -
> > deserves the subsequent money for ongoing interest in the work he did.
It
> > would drive me nuts.
> >
> > Barry
> >
>
>