Re: A Fair Deal

[lvirden@cas.org]

According to B.J. Major <bjblackbear@ibm.net>:
:In article <6252r5$676$1@srv38s4u.cas.org>,
:lvirden@cas.org wrote:
:> The only thing that was 'entrusted' to Nathan were specific requests
:> for additions or corrections to Nathan's FAQs.  Anything else was either
:> written by him, adapted by him, or discovered by him.
:
:Your phrase "Adapted by Him"; leaves a *huge* question in my mind. 

When I wrote "adapted by him" I wasn't referring to the previous
incarnation of the FAQs - however, that is a good point.
What I was thinking of when I wrote "adapted by him" was that some of the
info in Nathan's pages in all likelihood is his rewording or re-explaining
of information posted, encountered in programs, magazines, tech notes, etc.

:> I assume you are talking about new FAQs, written from scratch, and not
:> based on any of Nathan's own work here.  Otherwise, what you would
:> be proposing would be illegal and suspect to legal action, and we all
:> know that something illegal would never be proposed on _this_ newsgroup.

:You are obviously ignoring all the previous posts of the past two weeks
:that state that any new FAQs ARE going to be totally rewritten from
:scratch.  This has already been addressed--several times!!  I also find it

Actually, the postings you accuse me of ignoring are just now arriving here.
News is slow - shrug - nothing I can do about that.

:curious that you, as a FAQ maintainer yourself, say nothing about Nathan's
:violations of posting the FAQ on a regular basis to both this group and
:news.answers.

I have no idea what this last bit means.  Are you meaning what do I think
of Nathan ceasing to post the FAQ?  Again, it's my personal opinion that
a FAQ maintainer owns what s/he writes.  Thus the person has the privilege
to do with it what they want.  There are no laws requiring an author
to print something they have written.  I recall a recent story told about
Harlan Ellison, in which he is said to have stated in an interview that
his wife has strict orders to burn all of his papers once he dies - to
prevent someone from coming along and trying to publish bits and pieces of
his work, or trying to 'complete' things that were in progress, etc.  When
he made this statement, there was an outcry somewhere online (Harlan
seldom is specific about where these types of things are occurring) that
folk tried to claim he had no right to do this.  He of course vehemently
disagreed.
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