[Coco] The dire condition of software documentation.

[Joel Rees]

Thank you for that link.

Much more eloquent than my efforts on the subject.

2019年8月20日(火) 12:49 James Jones <jejones3141 at gmail.com>:

> It's not just most people; it's the Constitution. "[The Congress shall have
> power] to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing *for
> limited times* to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their
> respective writings and discoveries.”
>
> I commend to everyone's attention Spider Robinson's "Melancholy Elephants",
> and point out that there are probably similar limits on categories of
> games, algorithms, and data structures.
> http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 6:28 AM Francis Swygert <farna at att.net> wrote:
>
> > As Gene noted, Disney and other large commercial organizations that
> depend
> > on copyrighted material lobbied (and continue to do so) for the
> draconinan
> > copyright laws we now have. The only change I thought a good idea is when
> > they stopped requiring you to register for a copyright -- just put a
> notice
> > in your work and it's automatic.
> >
> > The time limit is what most have an issue with. I have no problem with it
> > being basically unlimited -- as long as it is in use/available for sale.
> > could be a corporation, the original author, or their estate. As long as
> it
> > is a viable product in use by a copyright holder it should be protected.
> If
> > the law were changed with an "in use" or "five years after use or
> > commercial availability ceases" clause it seems it would do it's job of
> > protecting the copyright holder without undue stress. "Available" can be
> > from a website by the author or publisher. Don't have to have sold any in
> > five years or more, just listed and made available if ordered. On demand
> > publishing or even just as a PDF file would easily cover that today.
> Mickey
> > Mouse would be safe, and hobbyists like the CoCo community would also.
> >
> > Honestly, there is little danger of being sued in the CoCo world simply
> > because it's been so long few (if any) care. There are a few, and
> everyone
> > I know of in the community respects those wishes when they ask that their
> > rights be respected and copies not distributed. Truth is there are so
> many
> > copies out there already that it's next to impossible to uphold any
> rights,
> > but that doesn't mean we should blatantly abuse them.
> >
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