Re: German CD-ROM (Was: Re: Addressing home-made adapter cards)

[gtaylor@sr.hp.com (Glenn Taylor)]

Richard J Wifall (rwifall@nmsu.edu) wrote:

 |	Yeah, the German UG CD-ROM also apparently doesn't care much
 |about what restrictions apply to things they put on their CD-ROM.  IE
 |two of my programs are listed in the catalog of the CD-ROM despite
 |saying in the documentation that they are not to be distributed for
 |more then a $5 disk copying fee.  And I really doubt they're selling
 |those CD-ROM's for $5.

 |Richard "Gonna have to read up on international copyright laws sometime" Wifall

Why is it that Shareware authors get so upset over having their pgms
included in one of those shareware collection CD-ROMs?  Look folks, CD-ROM
is just another storage media!  Why fret about it?  Is it the 'capacity'
that scares you?  What about the incredible low cost?  Face it, CD-ROM is
here to stay.  Nothing at this point can beat CD-ROM as a low cost
publishing medium.

Someday, when your last 5.25" floppy disk goes bad from 'iron oxide eating
fungus', you'll wish you'd saved all those neat shareware pgms that used to
exist for the Apple // on CD-ROM.  It will certainly be a shame to lose all
that history.  This stuff deserves to be saved forever.
 
What's gonna happen is this...  20 years from now you'll be taking your
grandkids to the Smithsonian, and one of them will point at the Apple ][
on display.  The museum guide will then remark "oh that...  that's an Apple,
one of the first micro computers ever made.  Too bad we don't have any
software for it, or else I could show you how it worked."  <fade to black>

- Glenn