On 12/08/2014 18:12, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , wrote:

Jethro_uk wrote:
Apparently genuine logarithm tables used to contain deliberate
errors,
to trap forgers; and OS maps include things which are not there.
When I worked in logistics software, the digital maps manager told
me the OS were *very* proactive about their copyright, and caught
many dodgier (we paid for our maps) outfits out with minute features
all over their maps.
I just feel that as the OS is (was?) "ours" we should have access to
their information as of right.

This is, and always was, cock. If you didn't have shares in it then you
didn't own any of it. And even if you do own shares in a company, does
that entitle you to their products free of charge?

Not so much that, more that copyright law is all cock. It's law to
protect business interest and profit at the expense of consumers and
ordinary people. Unsuprising that it makes no sense in ordinary human
and moral terms.

Tim W