Re: A NEW APPLE II CD PROJECT - OFFERING!

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <tcpnntpd.17.3.5.4.13.18.3183328205.74929@lost-gonzo.com>,
 <sysop@lost-gonzo.com> wrote:
>i have a guestion...is there a more organized way via some mutual
>agreeable party by everyone to just have someone else do the cd-rom
>project...

   There already are several Apple II CD-ROM projects out there, with
all of the copyright issues properly taken care of. Jim Maricondo's
Golden Orchard CD is one of them, and it deerves support for *doing it
right*. [http://www.hypermall.com/digisoft/digisoft/orchard.html
for ordering, pricing, etc info.]

   If all you want is a CD-ROM to put onto your BBS, then why can't
you just take a large Apple II site (say ground), and just download
the contents to a HD on your BBS, and serve files from there. As long
as you don't charge for access, you have everything publically
available (unless there are ground-only distribution limits, which I
don't think I've ever seen) at no violation of any program
distribution limits. If you were running a unix program like 'mirrror'
you can grab down all of the contents, keeping files up to date, etc.

Nathan Mates
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