>> There is also - to me! - a difference between something like ripping >> off a manual and redistributing it [and] keeping a private archive >> of such things, to make sure the information is not [lost] > Why private? More risk of loss if it isn't distributed.
What Johnny said, essentially: it's where I fall on the tradeoff between copyright violation and risk of loss. (For some things. Where I fall on that spectrum varies from case to case, as I outlined, all the way from things like currently-live commercial licensed binary-only software, which I don't tolerate on my machines, to things like software I wrote and released to the public domain, which of course I have no question about keeping around.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
