Re: Asimov Site

[phoenyx <duke@pcnet.com>]

> Thank you for the information.  I look at it as preserving history not
> pirating.  If the company has gone out of business why would anyone care?
> An example is E-Bay.  People don't think of that as pirating, but in many
> cases they are re-selling an item and receiving more money than what they
> originally paid for it.  I've seen it happen a lot.  And the companies
> products they have done it to still are in buisness.
> Anyway, we now recognise that we need to preserve our history.  Hence,
> historical sites.  The government sets them aside and anyone in the world
> can share in its history.  Mabye we need to now start a computer historical
> sites.  So we can preserve how we got where we are to day with computers.
>  Well I've go on long enough.  I just hope that programs that are no longer
> from a company in buisness disappear.  That would be a tragedy.

Many of those software packages are under a copyright which doesn't allow for
transferal of the software, manual and/or other items supplied with it. Thus,
the only real legal method for getting software is the freeware project or one
of the other ftp sites. Assuming they are re-classified.

I like the library idea but it still would have a problem. The US library has
the protection of the government behind it. Now, if we could get them to store
software, that would be cool.

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Thank you for your time and interest. I hope it was helpful
or at least interesting.

Phoenyx,

Apple2 user since March 1984

Links to Phoenyx's pages:
preferred..... http://zip.to/Phoenyx_A2
alternate..... http://www.tinyangeldesigns.com/Apple2