Re: New FAQ sites

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Sheldon Simms writes ...
> .... 
>> .      Implicit in being accepted as FAQ keeper is the requirement that one
 guarantee that the FAQ's be readily available for downloading by any
 Apple II user from an open, free site. If the restriction on access is
 not soon removed, it will be necessary to upload the csa2 FAQ's, perhaps
 in reorganized form, to one or more new sites.
<<

> 
> Are you claiming that the FAQ that Nathan wrote is in fact public property
> rather than the property of Nathan Mates? ....

     Two or three nicely done "Mini-FAQ's" were authored by someone else. A 
very good one on Sound by Ian is an example. These would, supposedly, remain 
part of the new 'official' FAQ's collection.

     Special FAQ's which seem to be mostly or entirely the work of the old FAQ 
Keeper, such as the one on BASIC, would not be included. Users would still need 
to jump over whatever hurdles the old FAQ Keeper chooses to erect.

     The current FAQ's of primary interest are those which answer questions 1.0 
through 10.2. As BJ and others have demonstrated, these can reasonably be 
viewed as csa2 property.


> 
> Of course, I will "reorganize" them by shuffling the chapters around. That
> should take care of any legal problems right?
> 
> Or did you actually mean that you are going to write your own FAQ from
> scratch, without copying Nathan's FAQ?
>

     It will be best to rewrite, expand, and reorganize the csa2 FAQ's. The 
product would, then, be uploaded to all major A2 ftp sites and maintained by 
the new FAQ Keeper with one of the major sites serving as the base for updates. 
Naturally, there would no longer be any restictions on access and anyone would 
be free to upload the FAQ's to any site.


Rubywand