Re: It's MACOS dammit

[ue554@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Steven H. Lichter)]

Cturley2 (cturley2@aol.com) wrote:
: I've never used GBBS nor any other BBS operating systems for that matter.

: I had heard much praise and interest in GBBS though over the past years.  The
: current postings on matters of legal action and the problems curtailing it's
: past ftp site
: availability and use to the public seems to me an indication that the current
: Steven H. Lichter claiming ownership of GBBS is doing more to kill it than save
: it for future preservation and usefulness. 

: I've even requested the removal of some collectives that were designed for use
: with the GBBS, and had been available from the AOL Apple II collection of
: archives, that I coordinated the transfer and preservation of to our Apple II
: ftp site - Ground - for free public access to by all Apple II users on the
: Internet.  They have been removed.

: After all, why waste space on an ftp site with archives designed fo use with
: something - when nobody can have access to what it was designed for use with?

Excuse me!!!!

What I'm trying to do is make it very clear that GBBS/ACOS/LLUCE is not
Freeware/Public Domain, nor to be given away.  

I paid a lot more for the program then I could ever get for it. Because if
I had not Lance would have just put it away and that would have been the
end of it.  I have already given support to many system who have contacted
me and have taken the SysOps word for it that they had the right to be
running the program. If you have code on your sites, it really should not
have been there unless the person who wrote those segments had either put
it there or given their permission. The main segments (needed to operate
the program) or anything derived from it should not be as well as ACOS
code.

I had asked the Asnov site to remove the program and I have been told he
has done so. When I'm ready to sell or upgrade the program I can assure
you it will be well worth what is asked compaired to what you get and
support. It will be nowhere near the $125.00 that Lance asked for the
program.

I really really don't like being told that I'm trying to kill it. What I'm
really tied of if the pirating of software stating that we are only trying
to save it, well stealing is stealing, unless you can get permission to
copy it.

I have nothing personal against anyone on this newsgroup, but I don't like
being attacked for defending my rights to something I own and really care
for.

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The above are my ideas and have nothing to do with whoever my employer is.
SysOp Apple Elite II and OggNet Hub (909)359-5338 2400/14.4 24 hours,
Home of GBBS/LLUCE Support for the Apple II. Reply to stevenlATpeDOTnet.