Re: dont forget the subject here. my 2c worth

[smentzer@pacbell.net (Steve Mentzer)]

In article <33ED7006.42D0C55D@texhoma.net>, rmtmaine@texhoma.net says...
>
>Cant we all just get along and trade stuff in peace.
>
>    Until two weeks ago when I had the fortune of purchasing an Apple
>//e of the princely sum of $3, I had not even thought of my apple 2 days
>in some time. I was amazed at how much software I had kept, and how fun
>some of it still was. I got out the old apple 2c that I had been keeping
>under the bed, and I found the imagewriter 1 that I still say is the
>most indestructible printer ever built, and I have been having more fun
>than I have had in many years with computers.
>
>    I then took a look around for sites and info on the apple2, and to
>my amazement there are a few.  There are even emulators written for it,
>I was shocked.
>
>    Then I found comp.sys.apple2 and about ten guys with sticks up there
>asses about some 20 year old pirated software. All that should be said,
>is who gives a rats ass. I was 15 when I got my first apple 2 in the
>late 70's, and if you think that I didn't xerox a few programs back then
>you're loopy. I still have some of it, and it still works just as well
>as it did the day I copied it.
>
>    Back in the good old days I had several disks of copying software:
>Locksmith, and Copy 2 Plus, and Quick & Dirty, and Nibbles Away, and on
>and on. We did it then, we do it now. They sold the copy programs to
>teens, like giving whisky and car keys to teenage boys and telling them
>not to do anything foolish. The first thing we did was copy the copy
>program and give it to a buddy.   
> 
>    Only now things are different, there are but a few, we are a
>minuscule minority of computer users programming and using 20 year old
>stuff that few people seem to remember.
>
>    For god sakes, just copy the stuff and chalk it up to one more
>person getting a bit of use out of something. I think copying a piece of
>apple 2 software today isn't going to amount to a hill of beans. This
>stuff was all written off years ago. I've even got Macintosh software
>that wont work on anything higher than system 5 that I'd be glad to copy
>for you with absolutely no sense of remorse. If a company is unwilling
>to support the software, then let the users "public domain" it. Stick it
>on an FTP site.
>
>    This is the Apple 2 we are discussing here, let's not forget that,
>and in the beginning all software wanted to be free. We harnessed it for
>a while, and now it is time to put it out to pasture.
>


AMEN!!!

The only stipulation is that commercially-available-software SHOULD BE 
PURCHASED, NOT COPIED. 

There are many, many developers writing software for the IIgs because they 
love the platform. They deserve some support and compenstation. 

But my rule is ... If you can't buy it from a legit source, download it.

smentzer@pacbell.net