Re: Nathan Mates (was Re: OMG!)

["Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@interprice.com>]

Im Artikel <20010426075032.08054.00000738@ng-mn1.aol.com> schrieb "The
Apple II Mail Group" <a2mg@aol.comnomail>:


>>someone uploaded stuff that you were going to upload anyway, and because
>>you didn't get to feel the power of control over when exactly it was
>>uploaded
>
> How could you think that someone else has a
> right to distribute work that the owner has not yet released?

Well as long as you still have an interest in the software, then
I would say that no one has that right. But if you were planning on
uploading it anyway, then how does it hurt you that someone else
uploaded it?

Ok, they uploaded old versions, they uploaded disks, so what? if
you just went ahead and made the software available in the format
you wanted, then what difference does it make?

Like I said, it seems to me that your main gripe is just that it
wasn't *you* who uploaded it, not the fact that it was uploaded.
Your attitude seems kind of like that of the kid who says 'If we're
not going to play by my rules, I'm not going to play at all!'

That's certainly your right, I don't deny it. But it seems, well,
childish.

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