On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:18:55 +0000, "Dave Doty" <davedoty@hotmail.com> wrote:
|From: Dave Fawthrop <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk> | |>*If* this happens I wonder how many volunteers DP will lose. | |Why would they lose any? They give DP resources to expand, and use the |books. Since they are already free to use the books, the only thing that |would change is more financial resources for DP. It didn't say anything |about exclusive use and even if they tried, well they admitted right there |on the webpage that the books are public domain, so they wouldn't be able to |keep PG or anyone else from using them.
In the UK "He who pays the Piper calls the tune." Does this not happen in the USA?
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