Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Thanks for the responses guys. (And yes, sarcasm = off)

Appreciate the diplomacy demonstrated, and Steve's response was 
great, although doesn't really clarify the legal stance.  Yes 
American synth manuals are excellent and informationally valuable.

I just can't help feeling that, once support evaporates for a 
product, that ownership of copyright of the instructions for that 
product which you may need to use that product, also evaporates.  Of 
course it's great that copies of these instructions are accumulated 
and sold - and I'm not necessarily taking the cyber hippy stance 
of "information is free" etc.

I am interested in the true legalities of 80s/90s synth doco 
(including service documentation - there seems to be more and more of 
it freely available on the Internet), but one fact which was not 
really obvious, and that puts a peculiar slant on the discussion, is 
that the owner of this mailgroup has a commercial interest in their 
distribution of the documentation referred to - this kinda makes the 
group an advertising corridor of sorts.  While it's hard not to take 
indifference to the implied standover comment (thread subject), and I 
didn't really think it was in the spirit of the public mailing list, 
I respect the fact that it is your (route66's) list and I certainly 
respect any entity that provides speciality support to a synth 
community.  Apologies for the rudeness, and happy synthesizing.

regards,
Mike

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, mishon66@a... wrote:
> Mike and Frank
> 
> It's to bad you are so easily dissuaded, I would hate to have to 
talk you out of shooting yourself in the foot. But if you do indeed 
find your PDF manual or bad Xerox copy on Ebay or some private web 
page good for you...but it wont happen here on this group.
> 
> As far as stepping on toes and shameless plugs.
> I have encouraged and welcomed every member and company here to 
share and advertise any item, upgrade, sound set or information that 
he or she has created. That is more than I can say for MOST of the 
web groups out there. If you want to market PDF manuals Great! then 
go and get a license to do so but don't come on this group slamming 
company's that are offering a service and supporting this user 
community.
> 
> Richard at Route 66