Re: Best of Music Studio

[Kirk Mitchell <kmitchel@nyx.net>]

Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote:

:     Granted, but the person who started the message thread isn't interested 
: in the GEnie Apple II archive, he's simply looking to get ahold of what
: amounts to a 3.5 floppy disk filled with _public domain_ song files for a
: _long-dead and forgotten_ (in the mainstream world at least) computer
: platform. And for what purpose? To promote awareness and nostalgia for
: the forgotten machine.

That's nice, Mitchell.  And he was pointed to the Syndicomm ftp library
which unfortunately for him is a pay service.  Others recommended TIAB
which also costs.

:     Considering those bunch of Music Studio songs are in the public domain
: (which means you can freely copy, distribute and even modify) couldn't
: someone with them offer to send them over? It rather bothers me that when

Thank you for volunteering to send them over.  

: there are actually people STILL interested in the Apple II series, they get
: responses of "if you don't buy product x/y/z, we'll thumb our noses at you!".

Now you're getting insulting, Mitchell.  Go build and beat your straw man
elsewhere.  Only on csa2 do folks offering suggestions get scolded by the
likes of you.

: I'm not trying to downplay the value of "Time in a Bottle" (I think it is
: worth paying for) just that what he wants is something unrelated.

His file is on it.  How unrelated is that?  Sheesh!

It's also in Syndicomm's library.  Will I send it to him?  I think he'd be
insulted if I did.  You know, coming from a "commercial" source and all.

-- 
Kirk