Re: TWGS EPROM v1.8 Archive Available

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Cturley2 wrote:

> Roy continued to spew these words of wisdom:
> <<Who's going to sue someone who has little or no money to pay? Lawyers don't
> work for free. That's why Chuck will keep on putting up stuff that he has no
> right to put up, no one could afford to sue him, since they'd never get their
> legal fees back.>>
>
> My name IS NOT Chuck and Roy...you know JACK about me - so stop
> spreading factless rumors about me and my financial status in this newsgroup ->
> dude!  You make more assumptions than anybody I know of.

Assumption #1 - you don't have the hundreds of thousands of dollars lying around
that would interest lawyers enough to sue you from here to Sunday. Now, was I wrong
about that? Or are you independently wealthy?

>
> Here's a suggestion for your Rev. Roy....do your preaching in your own church.
> I'm sick of reading it here on this newsgroup, as I'm sure many others are
> also.

That wasn't preaching. No text, no title, no topic sentence, no exegesis. But there
is an old preacher's comment that might fit: If you throw a stone into a pack of
dogs, which one yelps? :)

> If you've got something valid, factual and of some useful value that actually
> deals with Apple II computer information issues,

Ok. According to your own words you don't own the rights to AE's ROM. At least one
person does have the right to sell that ROM. Therefore, legally and morally you
should take that ROM code off your web site (you know, the one that you said only
has software on it that you have permission to distribute.)

> then post away.  Otherwise,
> please keep your moral concepts, personal conclusions and  non-factual
> assumptions to yourself.

But I have the right to post my moral concepts (which, other than in reference to
giving away something that doesn't belong to you, I haven't done), personal
conclusions and assumptions factual or otherwise. Just like you just did. Isn't
freedom a wonderful thing? :)

By the way Tom (don't like the diminutive of Charles, eh Chucky? I'll refrain from
that hereafter) you really could be a true aid to the Apple 2 community. You have
time, resources and inclination; but you seem to have no regard for the rights of
others; and an inability to admit when you jumped too fast. All you had to do was
contact Mr. Lange, and announce that since he has the evident right to sell the ROM
code, that you will remove it from your web site because you wish to support the
few Apple ][ businesses which still exist. Wow! Penman and QC would probably die
from heart failure.
But no, not you. You have to insist that you can do whatever you feel like doing.
You and Rube keeping saying that without lawsuits you won't stop and the lack of
lawsuits shows that no one cares. The fact, FACT, again Tom, is that lawyers are
very expensive. They charge for every second of their time and the time of their
staffs. And unless you have deep pockets, you won't ever get sued for the code that
you upload, it just isn't economically justifiable. So you'd better pray you never
win the lottery or oh boy will the lawyers circle you like vultures.

Roy