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Hi,
To change the subject a bit. What would it take to get the Office of the
Oceanographer of the Navy to do a new edition of "Manned Submerisble".
The current book is wonderful but a lot has happened since then.
Regards,
Ray
> From: SeaLordOne@aol.com
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 22:34:34 EDT
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] The Navy Speaks: Bubsy is Public Domain
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
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>
> Shipmates,
>
> I have contacted several staff members in the Office of the Oceanographer of
> the Navy, and they have all assured me that Busby's 1976 Manned Submersibles
> is Public Domain. What this means is that anyone, anywere can make unlimited
> copies, post the document on the internet, or even make copies to sell at a
> profit, (which has in fact been done with the blessing of the Navy). Public
> domain means this document belongs to the public, not to Busby, and not even
> to the Oceanographer of the Navy.
>
> When I asked Gail S. Cleere of Public Affairs if she would mind if we posted
> the entire document on the psubs website, she indicated that she would be
> "grateful" if we would provide that service. She would love to be able to
> keep the document in print, but simply lacks the funds.
>
> Private sector folks often focus on the "nabster" or "pirate" side of
> copyright, where vandals steal the knowledge of others without due
> compensation. But those of us in the public sector are very sensitive to the
> other side of the coin. Public Domain documents that should be available to
> the taxpayers who funded their development, but which are unavailable because
> the government libraries are underfunded. The Oceanographer of the Navy gets
> only 5-6 requests for Busby each year, which is simply not enough to justify
> keeping the book in print. They wish they could keep every book in print.
>
> I received an e-mail from the webmaster of the Office of the Oceanographer of
> the Navy just tonight, asking if he could have permission to put the psubs
> link on his website, on the FAQ page. In other words, when any person
> worldwide goes to the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy and wants a
> copy of Busby, they will be linked to PSUBS by the U.S. Navy.
>
> Now I personally think that is way cool, but this is not my website...Ray
> owns this website. So you (Ray) need to let me know whether you want to be
> the Navy's official Busby site or not. I am sure someone else will host it
> if you are not interested. You will be under no obligation to the Navy, but
> will certainly get a lot of attention. You need to decide whether you want a
> lot of attention.
>
> I have access to a pretty good scanner at work, so I will spend the next
> month running all 764 pages of Busby through the scanner. By then I am sure
> we will have someone who will be willing to host this for the
> Navy...hopefully Ray. Once this thing is on the web, everyone in the psubs
> community will have equal access to (IMHO) the only comprehensive PSUB
> document ever written.
>
> Just for the record, my primary contact was:
>
> MS. Gail S. Cleere, Public Affairs
> Oceanographer of the Navy
> 3450 Massachusettes Avenue, NW
> Washington, DC 20392
> (202) 762-1045, Fax 762-0480
> Cleere.Gail@HQ.NAVY.MIL
>
> Her last day is today. She is replaced by Senior Chief Robert Freeman on
> Tuesday. I am in contact with him as well. I have included this information
> for the archives, not so the Navy will be flooded with questions from
> individual PSUBBERS. I ask that you please continue to allow me to be the
> sole point of contact between PSUBS and the Navy on this issue, at least for
> now. I believe it will avoid confusion. Once the Busby book is linked and
> on-line, I will bow out and you can have at the Navy all you want. Deal?
>
> Ray, please let me know if you want to be on the Navy website. I will
> contact you on technical issues as they arise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Farrow