It may actually come down to some of the "manual merchants". Agilent has
a small list of them on their web site where old HP manuals and copies
can be purchased. They may have struck a deal with Agilent and are
pressuring Agilent to get the free stuff of the web?
This same thing went on with Collins radio a few years ago. The Collins
collector group made a deal with Collins to sell their old manuals.
Collins sent a letter to Bama and others forbidding them to distribute
the free manuals. This was apparently at the prompting of the Collins
collector group.
I believe that some of that has now been relaxed??
73
Gary K4FMX
Will Matney wrote:
> What HP-Agilent did there is the most prickish behavior I've ever seen! The
> only reason they could be upset is that they still want to try and sell
> copies of old manuals! Now if that aint being tight, I dont know what it is.
> I'll sure tell um one thing, I'll think twice about buying a new HP or Compaq
> computer, and or any piece of test equipment they've made or will make.
> That's surely what's known as being low enough to crawl under a snakes belly.
>
> I'll tell you what would really dig at um. Have someone to host the manuals
> where copyright laws dont extend. That goes on now with the server for WinMX
> I think for downloading music. I think they're home office is on an island
> somehwere around the Phillipienes, I cant remember where. I do know Sony and
> a few others tried to shut it down, and flat couldn't. If that government
> dont accept US copyright law, then the copyright holder is screwed. In HP's
> case, it would be deserving, IMHO.
>
> Will
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