Re: Seeking IBM partner for contacting IBM regarding publishing of documentation

Patrik:

I agree with your sentiments. That does not change the fact that IBM will
enforce its rights on the documentation even though it may be distributed
in the public domain already, by IBM. This is a situation that you have
very little chance of getting anywhere with. The best you can do is have a
site that references links to the IBM web site (if that link exists any
longer) and publish those.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 9:24 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Roger,

Am 03.04.2023 um 23:20 schrieb Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

Wishes/good intentions of a hobbyist versus intellectual property

concerns of a multi-billion-dollar corporation?

I don't get why there are concerns at all. My request is about publishing
unaltered documentation which has been publicly available earlier. I'm not
talking about Source Code or Application Programs which are frequently
withheld because the former may reveal security issues and the latter is
where the money comes from.

I fail to understand where there is any real harm done. I don't count
"losing control about publishing" as being harmful: I'm not the only one
who copied those documents when and where they were publicly available,
free of charge. Second, there are many more non-IBM sources on the net
providing public copies of documentation.

I think we know who wins this one.

To win means engage in a fight. I don't want to fight (a legal battle),
because using the legal approach means I'll loose because copyright is a
fact.

:wq! PoC



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