Re: Applesoft Reference Manual -- Blue Book - unlocked

[David Schmidt <david4602@gmail.com>]

On Jul 15, 11:49 pm, "bill.mart...@gmail.com" <bill.mart...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> [...]  We have permission to post the manual so, take down the
> unlocked version ASAP. [...]

I know I should just stay out of this... but I slept on it, and it
still bothers me.  So here goes.  :-/

Bill, this manual scan is AWESOME.  It looks great, and is a needed
piece of history.  Doc. Weyhrich and Brian Wiser have done a great
service by scanning it for all to see.  Those Commodore guys don't
know how good they've got it with bombjack. ( http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books.htm
)  Have you seen the volume of their scans?  Zounds.

Ok, so to my point.  I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.  I
didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.  But your
statement above doesn't quite make sense to me.  Apple Computer, Inc.
(Now Apple, Inc.) owns the copyright and distribution rights to that
work.  They just choose not to enforce them.  Unless a Miracle Has
Occurred (tm) and The Steve Jobs has granted you permission to post a
derived work, I submit that neither you nor any other of us really has
"permission" to post the manual.  We have benign disregard from Apple
in this case and many others.

You wrote and own A.P.P.L.E and derived works.  Copyright,
distribution rights, everything.  Yours.  No argument there.  But you
own sole distribution rights to Apple Computer, Inc.'s work (the Blue
Book)?  Is that what you mean to say?