Re: Asimov pirates AppleWorks 5, kills AppleWorks 5.2/6.0!

[tturner@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca ()]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
: bcarver@earthlink.net (Bill Carver) wrote:

: >We can ask the pirates to remove Appleworks from the site, and we've done
: >so many times in the past.  Each time it is removed and each time
: >Appleworks eventually comes back.

: Now this is interesting...

: Are you saying Asimov will remove Appleworks on request, but then it
: will pop back on and won't be removed unless you request it AGAIN?

--> Now let me go out on a limb, here and hazzard a guess . . .
    Mayhaps, when contacted, Asimov removes copyrighted software;
    but then, sometime later; someone u/l it again? Though the
    `management' of the site could, possibly, do a better job of
    policing their own site - they might be busy enough that it
    may not be on the top of their list of priorities to be
    checking/guarding against such a possibility, on a daily (or
    even on a weekly) basis? Not that this excuses them - but
    it may account for why commercial stuff shows up again.

    Some . . .  A2 user surfing around may go there, not see
    some particular package he/she has - and u/l it, thinking
    that they've done their good deed for the day. Being totally
    wrong, of course - but there's no accounting for people's
    motivations, at times. Just a possibility. Though the
    `general' impression one _may_ get from Asimov, that they
    are less than sticklers for details - this does _not_
    neccesarily mean that they are uncouth enough that they
    would pay only `lip-service' to such requests. I really
    cannot say, one way or another - but it is another
    viewpoint. I'm somewhat ambivalent about the site (which
    likely paints me with the: "If you ain't part of the
    solution - then yer part of the problem" brush) and have
    only used it to pick up a couple of DSK files for my PC,
    that I already have for my IIe. If this `brands' me;
    then it does. I've never u/l anything there, nor d/l
    anything I didn't already have. But this may not be
    `good enough' in some people's eyes. Whatever . . .
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