On Fri, 12 May 2006 18:20:55 +0100, nightjar wrote:


"Ed Sirett" wrote in message
news ..
I'm not a dishonest person, ...

However you want to dress it up, your aim is to steal BSI's intellectual
property.

I have no problem with the concept of intellectual property.
It the combination of a certain set of intellectual property also being
the law.

I'm not even arguing that the docs should be free - I'm just saying that
they should be affordable to most people who have an interest in them.
If CORGI said that it was mandatory to have access to these documents at
the price they retail at then most professionals would simply (and very
reluctantly) shell out and the whole matter would be yet another overhead
to be amortised by the clients.
Making the correct information available to everyone won't automatically
make things safer but might just help and demystifying the information
has other benefits.

There are gas fitting texts around (eg. CORGI, Viper and various
Training/Assessment centres) the trouble is that they contain summaries of
what the writer thought was important.

I strongly suspect that the BG fitter in the other thread did not have his
own copy of BS 5440-1:2000 although it is possible that he may just have
had Essential Gas Safety (from CORGI) with him.



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