Re: Publish-It! on Asimov - working?

["Sheldon Simms" <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com>]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 23:08:10 +0000, Bill Garber wrote:

> 
>> >> Could anyone successfully use the version of Publish-It! 4.0 on
>> >> ftp.apple.asimov.net? (It is in the
> /pub/apple_II/images/utility/graphics/
>> >> publish-it_4.0 subdirectory.)
>> >>
>> >> It seems to me that those .po files are damaged - their length is not
>> >> 143360 byte, and no software can use them.
>> >
>> > I tried every unpacker on every A2 machine I have and it appears
>> > to be writing the disk, but it will not boot, run, catalog, or otherwise
>> > do anything normal. If you can wait, I have Publish-It! coming and
>> > will shrink the disks and post them on my web site. ;-)
>>
>> Submit the images as replacements to Asimov too, please.
> 
> I would love to, but I found out it was not released into
> the public domain as yet. Good thing those files are not good.

Hmm... Well you could do it and say you didn't :-)

> Anyway, since they are not PD yet, they are pirate
> copies and should be taken down until we get the author or pulisher
> to release it.

Almost none of the disk images on Asimov are in the public
domain and they aren't there by permission of the copyright holder.
Nonetheless they aren't going to be taken down, thank goodness.

Gaining formal release of ancient software is impossible in most cases.
If Asimov didn't exist, then we could expect most of the software
archived there to be lost forever at some time in the future.