What I would and wouldn't do.....

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

Because there seems to be all this misinformation floating around out there
that I copy software "at will," my own guidelines on this follows:

I buy software.  That's right, buy.  Whether it's for my Macs, Apple II's,
or whatever else.  In the 1980s I bought literally thousands of dollars
worth of software--both games and productivity--for my first home computer,
an Apple IIc.  I still have all those software packages and manuals to this
day.  When I got my Apple IIgs and IIe used after 1990, I again bought at a
store in my area that caters to out-of-date or no longer produced systems. 
The internet didn't exist for me until 1994, so there was no possible way
to "download" or get otherwise "free" software during that time.  I have
never even belonged to a computer user group of any kind.

Before I will copy a disk for someone, I make sure of the following:  That
it is a software company that is TOTALLY out of existence; not a publisher
who has been absorbed by another company, publishing under a different name
now, etc. etc.  I also make sure that there is no good address or telephone
number for them any longer and I do attempt to contact them if at all
possible.  I have no qualms of copying a disk for someone once the above
conditions have been met.

I'm sorry to have had to bore the rest of the group with this otherwise
uncessary message.  I certainly hope it satisfies the "need to know" users
like Sheldon Simms, et al.

--bj
Proud user/owner of Apple Computers since 1984
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