Re:It's MACOS dammit

[ericlob@cris.com (ericlob)]

Steven H. Lichter <ue554@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
>Brian Hammack (brian.hammack@rook.wa.com) wrote:
>:
>:                    and 2qwk 2.x runs under ACID for flexibility -- LSW
>:                    did get official permission to use MACOS from ACOS'
>:                    owner because 2qwk is an offline, not online, util.
>:                    This info was deleted from the final article as
>:                    well, making the "Mac OS" bit all the more stupid.
>
>I am the current owner of GBBS and know nothing about allowing the use of
>MACOS which all agree was hacked from GBBS, that is unless the user has
>purchesed GBBS. I know that L&L had broght some kind of action against the
>writer of MACOS and they agreed to stop putting it out and agreed not to
>do it anymore. I know nothing about offline use of it, which to me would
>be the same as any other use. If someone has written information that
>shows otherwise I would like to see it. I'm not planning to make any
>money, believe me I bought the rights to save the program and make sure
>there is continued support.
>
>I will take legal action if I find systems running either GBBS/ACOS or
>MACOS who have not purchased it or received it in another legal manner, or
>giving the code or operating systems away or allowing it to be D/L as was
>being done.  Lance may not have done much to protect the program, but I
>have the means and the will to do so.  It would be a FEDERAL CRIME with
>large fines and jail.

Relax, Poindexter.

It's so typical of the csa2 newsgroup that a post about something that
happened 5 or so years ago gets some moron gibbering about the FBI and
legal action.

To cut to the chase, sometime not so long after Lance's email it became
apparent that trying to get decent performance out of m/acos would be like
trying to climb Mt. Everest with Ernest Bornine strapped to my back, and
rewrote everything in assembly.

A better use of your time might be to finish LLUCE (hah) so you have
something to compete with Metal/Futurevision for those few remaining
users who might be thinking about running a bbs.