> The first publisher is still printing the same June FAQ in issue 3 ...
> I have contacted all the other editors and a net writer and offered to
> put them on my free mailing list for new FAQs, to pre-empt further
> infringements, and this has resulted in editors offering me money to
> prepare regular custom material.
>
> Interesting times.
Certainly is interesting...a major change, I'd say. But it
brings up an evilly nagging thought.
If this becomes commonplace, who's to say who has the rights to
write a FAQ for a specific group, and be paid for the work? Say, for
example, I were to write a competing FAQ with the same topics as yours (I
have no intention of doing this, don't worry) and offered it to the
publishers for a lower price than that which they are paying you?
This is an almost horrifying thought: the "sacred tradition" of
FAQ maintainers, tainted by gross capitalism! Well, okay, ignore my
hyperbole. But 'tis still worth considering....
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