No rights, was Re: Syndicomm Scam

[D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>]

Michael Black wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
>> Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:51:00 AM UTC-5, D Finnigan wrote:
>>>
>>>> If Syndicomm is licensed from Apple, why didn't Apple provide
>>>> high-quality
>>>> masters of these documents?
>>>
>>>
>>> Pretty sure I know the answer to this one. The license was originally
>>> issued to ByteWorks, which eventually transferred it to Syndicomm when
>>> Mike decided to leave the Apple II business. Syndicomm inherited all of
>>> ByteWorks originals and proofs, some of which weren't in the best
>>> condition considering the era they were originally scanned. I recall
>>> Sheppy having to rescan many of them, to modernize and improve their
>>> quality.
>>>
>>> I have a few docs from the ByteWorks era and the resolution is not very
>>> good. Had Sheppy not released all the APDA content on CD, I was faced
>>> with buying replacements one by one and that was going to get expensive.
>>
>> I think David meant Postscript files for the documents, or .pdf's.  It
>> seems strange for a licensee to have to resort to essentially xeroxing a
>> master paper copy...or the logical equivalent of printing scans of paper
>> documents.
>>
> I seem to recall an explanation for that in this newsgroup years back, 
> though I can't remember the explanation.
> 
>    Michael
>

Syndicomm has NEVER had the rights to sell Apple products. If they did,
Apple would have given them the .ps master files used to print the manuals.
Syndicomm is making $$$ by selling scans of Apple's materials, similar to
those people on eBay who are selling ADTPro, Contiki, etc. on disk or CD.

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