[FM Discuss] Deleting an unwanted book from My Manuals?

[Micz Flor]

people have used their right to destroy their things. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms 

there is no simple answer to this question.

my believe is that free means i am free to create to change to duplicate
and to destroy.

On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 17:28 +0100, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> > lets say i wrote "How To Bypass Internet Censorship". The manual exists
> > only on FM (for arguments sake) with no clones. I then decide for what
> > ever reason (I'm drunk, i decide i dont any longer support internet
> > freedom, whatever) to delete it...
> > 
> > everyone happy?
> 
> I would be, the author doesn't have the ultimate right over their own
> work otherwise. Think of those authors who would rather hide their early
> attempts from the public.
> 
> More controversially, I would also support the original author of a work
> deleting a book that had been collaboratively edited. A really bad edit
> can destroy the purpose of the original work, and yet the author's name
> is still attached to that work. I've had it done to me a couple of times
> with magazine articles that I would rather were never printed.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Daniel
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