"R.Hubbell" writes:

Uh, when a guy makes the gathered info FREE on a website, AND publishes
it in a book, I cannot fault him.....

Since you don't seem to know what's going on I will tell you. The camping
site you say he's hosting is waiting to be filled in by anyone willing to
fill it in. Right now it's empty. Once you've put that up on his site
it's his (see the copyright on his site) then he creates a book from other
peoples' contributions and he collects the $$$.

Setting aside his poor socialization, do you really fault him for this
process? It isn't as though he tricks people into giving him the rights
to their content, is it? Is it any different from what AirNav does?

Of course I would love to see a community-based system (and I'd be happy
to host it) to collect such comments and make them available to everyone
to use, but I'm having trouble faulting him for fully-informed people
choosing to turn over the rights to their comments.

--kyler