Re: New Apple II SuperSite Online

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <39fc04b7_1@news3.prserv.net>, "Tom Zuchowski" 
<tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Actually, I asked both questions. But never mind.

Hmmm...must have missed that.

> You seem to feel pretty strongly that copyright law should be obeyed to 
> the letter. I might point out that a strict interpretation of copyright
> law does not permit the generation of DSK files for use with emulators,
> even if the user has an original copy of the disk. If you wanted to
> promote that as a reason for condemning this entire movement, I would
> have no argument.

No I don't think it should be obeyed to the letter...I just think
people should be honest about what they are doing.

I also remembered something else on the 10+ year old software debate.
Hasbro a while back acquired some old games, one of them being Asteroids.
They went around suing and getting cease and desist orders for anyone
distributing an Asteroids clone that they could find, whether it was
freeware, shareware or commercial.  This did include software that was
no longer be produced or updated.  So obviously there was some value
in that old software.  I do think they went much too far, but that's
corporate lawyers for you.  In fact, they sued Macsoft over a Mac 
clone of Asteroids, then turned around and gave Macsoft the license
to do the Mac port of their new Asteroids.

Greg B.
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