Re: To Jeff Blakeney - please read!

[Peter Koch <koch@pz.pirmasens.de>]

Hi!

Anon wrote:
> In a word.... No.  It's sort of become a tradition, and I get
> all teary eyed over tradition.  ;)

It's a bad tradition surely.

I myself was copying pirated software as a kid a lot
and i didn't realize that it was wrong a long time
until the room of a friend of mine was searched by
the police... he gave me a hint and i tried to hide
all my floppy disks immediately... but fortunately
the police never rang at my parents door.

My parents had really no idea what i and my friends
were doing... maybe that was the real problem.

Today, parents have no excuse anymore. Pirating,
Phreaking, Cracking,... all this is around long
enough for every grown man/woman in the industrialized
world to know that this is illegal and to have an eye
on their children.

Quantum_Cat, would you allow your children to crack or
pirate current software? I don't think so.

I don't know if we kids did much damage in these golden
days long ago. And i'd doubt that copying some 20 years
old Apple ][ software would do any damage today. I feel
we should rescue the stuff for historic reasons. This is
the ONLY excuse the asimov (and other) sites really
have. Most of the stuff would be lost otherwise.

I hope that if people that still have copyrights on this
software arise, we (the "Apple ][ forever" community) can
convince them to give the stuff into the public domain.
That's it. If we can't, we should remove the stuff.

In 30 years, maybe some people will remember Bill Budge
and show their grandchildren RasterBlaster. The people
that don't want to be rememebered shouldn't.

Tschuess (with a tear in my left eye)

Peter