P3D Re: Free info in the web

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>This sounds like a GREAT web site - one that is desperately needed IMHO.
>How about putting all of this info on the previously mentioned George
>Themelis web site? 
>    
>Dan Shelley

How about putting information on how to get this info (by subscribing
to the newsletter or buying the next Stereogram volume or something)?

I am still uncomfortable with the idea of the free information in the
web and the expectation that people do it.  I did not collect this 
information from the web.  And no one paid for my books, subscriptions
in stereo publications and cameras, films and mounts used in getting
this experience.  Why do people expect that I put the information on,
say how to repair a viewer, free in the web but if they send their
viewer it is OK to charge them $35 for doing the work.  I can get paid
for using a screw driver and a dremel tool but cannot get paid for
using a computer keyboard.  Why so?  The cost of getting information
has been reduced to zero in the web and I am not sure I like it.  
People who live by selling information (like this guy, Ed Romney
who writes camera repair manuals) will be without a job if this
information ends up somewhere in the web.

Any thoughts?

George Themelis


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