Re: Your favourite [Commodore] enemy - the Spectrum, the Atari, the CPC, the Apple 2, or the MSX???

["Matthew W. Miller" <mwmiller@columbus.rr.com>]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:55:38 GMT, Kelli Halliburton 
<kelli217@crosswinds.not> wrote:
> Larry Anderson wrote in news:comp.sys.cbm:
>> Apple II - are they still out there?  That is the quietest group on 
>> the net; I know there are Apple-II groups, but whenever you look for 
>> user representation they don't show much in numbers.  :-/
> Believe me, they're not quiet amongst themselves. There are quite a 
> few (well, two or three anyway) who enjoy regularly announcing 
> themselves as leaving the fold due to perceived slights, only to 
> reappear a few months or even mere weeks later.

I think every fan group has a few of those...

> one of the more prominent occasional members of the community 
> continually stands accused of stealing someone's work (then currently 
> still under active development) and claiming it as his own.

... and those...

> Did I mention the woman who has a lot to offer the community but has 
> incredibly strict quid pro quo based criteria for releasing her 
> contributions?

... and those...

> How about the guy who not only retreated from the community due to 
> intellectual property issues, but destroyed all of the careful 
> compilation and documentation projects that he himself had created, in 
> a fit of pique?

... yup, those too.  You have to take the lumps with the good, I 
suppose.

The Asimov FTP site is still going strong, and still excellent (if not
quite as comprehensive for its system as Arnold was [will be?] for the
C64).  Maybe Asimov should merge in Arnold's archive.  ;)
-- 
Matthew W. Miller
mwmiller@columbus.rr.com