I guess that I have just the opposite problem. I would like to see the faq
that I write/edit included on this CD, if it ever emerges. It seems that
the entire rec.games.* hierarchy has been omitted.
I know the amount of work the people put into their documents, and
understand why authers can become upset about having their 'free work'
used without permission while someone else enjoys the profit by just
collecting and copying their information. One of the reasons the I put
the effort into the backgammon-faq is to gather interest from people of
all levels, and encourage people to write technical articles about the
game. One of the results has been having a famous auther 'annotate' a
match and deliver it into the public domain, further fostering the idea of
distributing knowledge as freely as possable. This would have had a decent
monatary value had he published it.
I hope that others will reexamine if the value of having their work (if it
is uncopyrighted) redistributed on this CD outweighs the fact that the
distributers didn't ask permission for what is freely available via
internet anyways.
...Mark
damish@ll.mit.edu
backgammon-faq (rec.games.backgammon) editor
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