On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, John Hagerson wrote:
What is the purpose of PG? Is it to be a white-haired old man, with a scraggy beard, carrying a sign on the beach that says "Proprietary e-book formats may die!" or is it to provide a repository of information that is useful today and into the future?
Riiight. . .one book out of an entire library. Just put the appropriate note in it and move on. . . . [I think the current note could be improved. . .I don't know who wrote it, but it wasn't much of an issue then, and shouldn't be now. Tempest=Teapot] As long as people are proposing .pdf for all eBooks, which they are, this is a serious issue, but even when, hopefully it is not, it is not something that should be forgotten. Such as when WordStar went to court to claim copyright on ALL documents stored in WordStar format, and wanted royalties every time you used the documents you wrote yourself. Think this is silly? It was a HUGE case! Now swept under the carpet. [not to mention the people who tried to copyright the human genome, or who DID patent one person's genome. . .Mr. Moore, who was immune to a form of cancer.] This is a non-issue. . .no one else is every going to notice as much as this week.