Re: Why is Apple IIGS software not free (rant!)

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us>]

On 20 Jan 1998, Geraldine Wright wrote:

>In article <6a1g6o$ruh$1@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com says...
>>...your best bet is to contact the authors and ask them to reclassify them so
>>that everyone can legally enjoy them.
> 
> This has been tried before, with only limited success. It seems that it
> is not easy to locate some of the authors of the very old software.
> Does anyone have some suggestion how we can generate a list of the
> authors of these programs and their E-mail addresses so that they
> can be contacted about making their software freeware?

There is a "Giant List of Classic Game Programmers" somewhere on the
internet.  It does list current e-mail addresses of programmers if they
are known to the person who was doing the list.  It was mentioned here
on CSA2 a while back.

I did contact an author of a game I liked, and he didn't quite seem to
be interested in putting it out as freeware quite yet...he was
considering doing a more modern version of the game.  Of course, he
also didn't seem to care if anyone copied the Apple II version of the
game and was possibly going to put it on his website.

Greg B.

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