Re: Wolf 3D

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack) wrote:

> Randy said back to Supertimer:
>
> SSN| : It is not on the public ftp servers or on cba2 because he seems
>    | to think : we are not good enough for his free software.  No
>    | thanks, I'll wait until : it shows up on a Seven Hills product
>
> SSN| Sounds like someone in dire need of having people refuse to
>    | support him and not use his software. I'm in the habit of doing
>    | without anything such people put out.
>
>Are we still talking about Wolf3D or did I miss a turn?

You missed a turn.  We were talking about the Hierarchic Control
Panel and where to get it.  Richard Bennett has evidently restricted
access to the online services because "csa2 is filled with pirates."
There may be pirates here, but I am not one of them.  I do not like
to be called a criminal just because I don't use Delphi or Genie.
All I said was that I would rather wait to buy it from Seven Hills
rather than be forced by someone elses politics to get an account
on another ISP.

>My 2c:  If someone puts a program up on their personal website or FTP,
>no hinderances to the public's ability to nab it from there, then it IS
>up for grabs.  Just because someone doesn't put a program on a binaries
>group or send it to other FTP's (can you say "product control"?) does
>not mean that someone's guarding their wares.

I meant no attack on Wolf.  In fact, I have been wondering why us A2
users complain about the software and hardware that we have?  We
complained so much that we lost the Zip GS while fanatical C64 and
C128 users got TWO accelerators MADE.  Even folks that don't have
and have never seen the output of a Second Sight complain about it.
We even complain about free software like Wolf.  We should stop
complaining and maybe, like the Commodore users, we will get some
new hardware this Christmas (eg. from CMD).