Re: My $0.02 on selling FAQs

Alex Lopez-Ortiz (alopez-o@barrow.uwaterloo.ca)
Tue, 18 Jan 1994 17:33:23 -0500

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>
>Hi folks,
>
>Since I did not purchase the rights to any of the material in the
>soc.motss FAQ from the original contributors, I can not in good conscience
>charge anyone else for the use of that FAQ. There is no way I could
>defend reselling someone elses' ideas and words when they were freely
>given to me.

If your compilation is ingenous and required a significant amount of
time, you can certainly charge people for the work you've done.
Of the two FAQ's I maintain, one is mostly my creation the other
has a lot of quotes. Not surprisingly I would charge a "larger fee"
for publication rights to the latter.

Alex

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