[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry Chuck, as much as you'd like to think all Apple employees are up to
> productive activities, Kyle is right. As long as I've been aware of the
> existence of Service Source manuals (10 years now), I've only ever been
> able to access them sporadically as a 'member-of-the-public'. Apple does
> protect the service manuals *very seriously* and when they become aware
> of it _will_immediately_ shut down anyone who hosts SS files privately.
>
> As a non-signer of the Apple non-disclosure agreement however, Apple's
> need to restrict access to these files means jacks**t to me. I have to
> say I've got a bug up my butt about it, and I'll do all I can to ensure
> SS files are known-about, and disseminated as widely as possible. A
> 'political' decision I suppose, set the knowledge free and all that sort
> of blather. What especially galls me is Apple's refusal to release
> manuals for product they no longer support, can anyone come up with a
> valid reason why that is so?
>
> I'm not sure if Kyle personally disapproves of the public having access
> to the repair manuals, but of course professionally he's obligated to
> discourage it. As for his reference to 'stolen backdoor links', anything
> anyone puts up on a publicly accessable server is fair game. Gamba rocks,
> in _my_ book!
I *personally* feel that the service manuals should be "public domain." I think that
everyone should have the right to use them and that Apple should just void the
warranty on their computer if they use the manual and screw their machine up. I
especially feel this way about manuals for out of warranty machines. I agree with
you. I just wish that people would realize that the reason that the previous links
are now dead, as that people were speaking about it in public forums. If they would
just shut the hell up, the manuals would still be there for them to download.
-- Kyle H. Hansen
Apple Certified Technician
Apple Hardware Technician
Macintosh Server Administrator
www.frankenmac.com
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