Re: Regarding Asmiov (was: GS Icon file Verifier released)

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <gi01398@pro-palmtree.cts.com>,
Richard Der <rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com> wrote:
> 
>rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND) wrote:
>>     No doubt, the asimov people feel that the software they are
>>using is software that either   1- Nobody cares about selling
>>or  2-Somebody may care about selling the item; but, he/she does not
>>(or would not) especially mind, for now, having asimov distribute
>>image files. (Actually, it is kind of flattering to come across a post
>>requesting an image of a game you created 13 years ago.)
> 
>There is one little problem with this: they have AppleWorks. It wouldn't
>be so bad if they only had out of print software. Then, at least, you
>could make an argument of intent/spirit of the law vs. the letter of
>the law.

Last I checked, They only had Appleworks 1 and Appleworks 2.

NOT version 3, which is the lowest numbered AW that will run on my machine
(IIgs with 6 megs).  Appleworks 2 is only useful on the 8bit machines,
and even then it's not very useful.  I'm not aware of anyone still selling
Appleworks 1 or Appleworks 2, because they just don't work with the 
"newer" and bigger machines.

Also, I think that anyone who is online enough to know about asimov
and figures out how to use it is probably also online enough to know
that they want AW3.0 at the MINIMUM, and can figure out where to get it
(Alltech had it, last time I looked at their "catalog").

Is asimov doing something bad then?  I doubt it.  I don't think that
anyone is losing money over it, and I know that I'm definitely not losing
any sleep over it.

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