Date   : Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:37:41 +0100
From   : mark@... (Mark Usher)
Subject: ReTuLa, a Tube ULA

> What did you expect from John Kortink, to him ours is not a community
> for sharing it is a business opportunity.

That is quite a harsh statement. John has contributed many answers and his
knowledge in this and other forums. If he wants to spend his time working on
a project, it is surely up to him if he wants to make all details public,
now or later. There are others that have developed closed BBC addons and
hardware and I don't see the same statements.

We are not forced to buy or support such items and free to develop (and
share if we choose) our own projects.

I agree, that much information is lost due to lack of preservation / public
release, but that is also often due to legal reasons, copyrighted
information being used in its development, signing of NDAs etc etc. Open
source concepts were not prevalent 30 years ago.

Another point is once this information is made public, how is it preserved
in the public domain. For example, BBCdocs.com has a large collection of
documents. What happens on my demise? The domain and hosting is paid for
12months in advance, but then would simply disappear. 

-Mark