Oz WB PCBs - now available - Or how I screwed the list

Bruce nacelp at bright.net
Wed Oct 24 02:10:46 GMT 2001


> > Nothing like free advertising, right Pete?..
> > You Copyright your site, and violate someone else's Users Agreement.
>
> FYI, Australia is a signatory to the Berne (?) convention on Copyright.
> That convention says that Copyright is established as soon as
> something is first published. I believe that the USA is also
> (finally) a signatory.
> A Copyright notice serves to identify the holder of the Copyright
> and the year(s) of publication. Copyright exists in all published
> material unless explicitly surrendered.
> i.e. even though there may not be a Copyright notice, Copyright is
> still held by the author unless the author chooses to give it away.
> The necessity of including a Copyright notice (and "All Rights
> Reserved") is because of the USA's tardiness in signing the
> convention, allowing the work of foreigners to be exploited in the
> USA without compensation to the author, unless both notices had been
> meticulously included.

So, then your accusing him of violating Copyright laws in his WB project, in
addition to the Users Agreement?.

> > That still puzzles me.  Maybe you can explain how that one works?
> > (without using any of your previous lies).
> > Nice to see you plaster this across the list for the 8 or so
> > Australian participants, and kill off other stuff for the rest of
> > us.  Even if you sell all 40 boards (I think that's what you've
> > claimed to have made), is it really worth trashing other projects
> > for the rest of us over your greed of a few bucks?.
> Peter is doing us a _favour_ in Australia. His local production of
> boards means that we don't have to mess around with overseas
> payment, postage, customs clearance and taxes.

Yep and well over 400 will get to pay for that.
Gosh, imagine having to do all that.  Wow, you whine about that, what about
the work that went into designing the darn thing?.

> I believe that there are about 8 W.A. subscribers to the list.
> An estimate of 20 subscribers for the whole of the country would be
> quite conservative.

More then I've seen but even if it's 40, why should we all have to be
punished for his disreguard of something so simple as the Users Agreement?.

> > BTW, how are the other list projects going?.
> > I'd just imagine, that they are way down on the to do list since there
is
> > nothing to be gained from an on list discussion of things.

BTW, how is your WB project going?.
Bruce


>
> [snip]
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Peter Gargano" <peter at techedge.com.au>
>
> > > I have a new batch of Oz-DIY-WB PCBs available. As before, AU$20 each
> > > (about US$12.50 total shipped to US/Europe within 7-10 days). PayPal,
> > > Visa and Mastercard payment are accepted.
> [snip]
>
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