Re: Backup Copies

[KingSurfer@Surfside.sea (King Surfer)]

In article <3ACC7392.44D70D5F@nb.net>, Henry Garcia <compdata@nb.net> wrote:


> > Had Penman made a REAL effort to contact Steve Jobs at: iceo@apple.com
> >
> > ...for his concerns over the online free distribution of AppleWorks and
> > appleWorks GS for the Apple II models, he might have found that Steve Jobs
> > could care less about such things and had no objections to such free online
> > distribution.
> >
> > After all - I've been informed by many others that Tony Diaz makes Copy II
> > Plus, AppleWorks and AppleWorks GS all available on his Focus IDE hard
drives
> > sold from Altech - per the customers request.  Nobody seems to complain
about
> > that method of distributing it all.

Thank you.

Couldn't have said it better myself. And this is off topic and I won't
comment on it here again in this newsgroup, but it will be said here this
once by me:

I am not going to race around the planet or the Internet for that mater,
chasing down the author or company of long gone, out of date, decades old
software that I wouldn't know who or where to send the money to in the
first place, or that I know hasn't been in business to sell that software
or has marketed that software since you could *even buy* an Apple II
computer to run it on.

Have a problem with that? Sue me.

Now, the folks who make Proterm for instance, that's a different story.
That product (and a good one BTW) *IS* still being developed last I heard,
and *IS* still being sold. And hence, I would not infringe on that
copyright. Nor on any other ongoing software venture that is currently a
for-sale item (by the original owner or current licensee).

If you have owned an Apple II for any length of time and saw them come and
go (retail wise or through any other sales channel) then you will have a
pretty good idea who is still around and who hasn't been since about the
late eighties on up, which is about 99.999999999 percent.

I just bought two Apple Platinum 3.5" drives at a Good Will store for $2.00
a piece, both in perfect working order. In one drive was an original
program disk of Fantavision by Broderbund Software for the IIGS. Works too.
What should I do; spend the next six days on the phone trying to locate the
last sitting CEO of Broderbund to ask him how much to make the check out
for and where do I send it?

Baloney.

That's how it is.

And that's my .02.

Sorry for the off-topic rant.



Cobey Myers
craganmoor@earthlink.net

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