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Subject: Re: Bowditch
From: Cliff Sojourner (cls@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 23:41:22 EST
first, for Tony Cappiello and anyone else who is interested, I have copies
of the PDFs for the 1995 Bowditch. it is 59 files, about 25MB. probably
best if you can FTP it from me.
second, Gordon,
From: "Gordon Talge" <gtalge@XXX.XXX>
To: <NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 15:38
Subject: Bowditch
> Well, it looks like from the response about splitting Bowditch that
> Celestial Navigation is a thing of the past. Maybe it might be
> worthy of an appendix as a "backup" method.
how do you come to this conclusion?
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> Wonder what's going to happen when at a very inconvenient time
> someone decides to turn off ( and they will ) the GPS.
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> Second thought. I would urge people not to buy "e-books" with
> all kinds of restrictions placed on them. E-books are a menace
> to freedom. Checkout the philosophy section at http://www.gnu.org
> and the writings Lawrence Lessig and Richard Stallman.
completely agree on this! can not over emphasize this.
>
> Instead of "Pay per view" if we are not careful, we are going
> to end up with "Pay per read".
and worse!! no derivative works, if Disney and the large copyright holders
continue have their way. imagine a world where everything you create
indebts you to someone for "copyright". given that Disney's empire is
created from copyright-expired and derivative works, the hypocracy is too
much for me.
Long live USGPO "free" text!!
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> -- Gordon
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