Re: Source Code for OS?

[olcott <olcott@qwest.net>]

There will be a slight demand for it
as soon as NONE of it remains. Even
if any of it would remain, the potential
revenue stream (museums don't have
much money, and there are few museums)
is subsumed by the cost of marketing...

Paul Schlyter wrote:

> In article <3A82C854.34E3A005@qwest.net>, olcott  <olcott@qwest.net> wrote:
> > The author can not be found, he doesn't care...
>
> How do you know if you cannot find him?
>
> > There will never again be a market for Apple Dos 3.3 software... It
> > would be nice that this stuff would remain available in some museum
> > somewhere. The problem with this it that it is all considered useless
> > junk, right up to the point when there is none of it left, thenn
> > (then and only then) it becomes a valuable historical artifact.
>
> Which means then there WILL be a demand for it, i.e. a market for it,
> just like there is a market for other historical artifacts!
>
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