Re: And more Asimov additions (9.2.12) - a few pirate wares and misc

[aiiadict@gmail.com]

On Monday, September 3, 2012 1:06:51 PM UTC-7, D Finnigan wrote:
> aiiadict wrote:
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> > What is the legal status/hangup on making these available?  So much
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> > awesome
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> > code that people are missing out on.  Is anyone selling them?  I don't see
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> > any advertisement, sales page, or any discussion about SoftDisk
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> > whatsoever,
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> > and when it is seldom mentioned, the thread ends quickly.
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> That's because in the Apple II world, which is organized hierarchically by
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> the status level of individual participants, is divided into camps of people
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> who want to have it all for free, and camps of people who don't want the
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> others to have it all for free.

There is another group, who would like to see things available for sale at a reasonable price.  I don't think it is fair for the original authors WORK to be with-held from being appreciated.  They all got payed already.  It's like building the pyramids and then not letting anyone look at them.  Amazing engineering and hard work, but you can't look at it because it's on my property.

Rich