Re: Asimov performs a valuable service; so why fight over it

[mattack@area.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <353DE80F.FB422380@swbell.net>,
Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>     Certainly, there have been law enforcement raids upon pirate
>producers of video tapes and CD's. One important distinction between
>such situations and Asimov is that Asimov is not selling anything. The
>reason this is important is that selling something for a profit
>demonstrates that is has real market value. Practically everyone agrees
>that the wares maintained on Asimov have so little market value that the
>copyright holders do not try to sell them.

In the "overall" picture, you're right.

However, Activision sold Atari 2600 games with an emulator.

Sierra sold Apple II games (along with some IBM games) with an emulator.

Both of these were in the past year or two.

To say that there is "so little market value" isn't exactly true.  If it
were, two big name software companies wouldn't have already made products 
using software from the same era.

>close such a valuable archive. Most II users like Asimov.

Where do you get that?  Real II users, or emulated-II users?
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