[okfn-discuss] Re: okfn-discuss Digest, Vol 14, Issue 10

[Ron Severdia]

That may be true..the second scenario may be easier and cheaper for  
some people. But even cheaper than that is to put it on a disk and  
take it (or email it) to your local copy store for printing, or give  
it to a friend who has a printer to print for you, or bring it to  
your office and print it on the boss's dime & time (people do this  
all the time)... the cheap/free variations go on and on. The point is  
that the internet is everywhere and so are computers and printers. If  
you don't have one, you know someone who does have one.

There are speeding or drunk driving laws because there's a minority  
of people that can't responsibly drive, thereby "ruining" it for  
every one else. The same blanket rule goes for publishing companies.  
They may claim to have all the scruples in the world, but it's a fact  
of life that corporations lie (in varying degrees) to make money. So  
I can't, in good conscience, allow one of them to exploit (for lack  
of a better word) someone else for profit. Why wouldn't they take the  
freely available Globe Edition (now in the public domain) instead if  
they want to print books and not pay for them?

Thank you for your thoughts and ideas. I really like hearing from  
various points of view on this subject and I hope that someone can  
"show me the light"... :)

Ron






On Nov 24, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Francis Irving wrote:

>
> I just don't understand the difference between the theatre director
> paying HP or somebody to buy their laser printer and toner, and them
> paying a publisher to print a copy of the work for them.
>
> In many cases the latter might be much more convenient.
>
> Francis
>
>

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