Re: Licensing, distributing Apple II system software, and II computing

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:

> In article <39DB3A7D.1B6063C7@inetnebr.com>,
> Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
>
> > BTW - the last time I was on AOL (and that's been sometime now) Apple still
> > distributed software from their own AOL forum, including Apple II software:
> > but the only Apple II software that Apple would distribute was exactly the
> > same software that they have given Sheppy permission to distribute. No DOS,
> > no Pascal system software. Why would they give him permission to distribute
> > something that they don't distribute themselves (but I asked him, because
> > I had hopes.)
>
> Why not?
>
> And why should Bob Sander-Cederlof (owner of S-C Software) give me
> and others permission to distribute his software which he no longer
> distributed himself (He didn't even have his own original disks left)
> ???
>
> I'm glad he didn't follow your logic.

Well, as my kids would say Paul, DUH! It wasn't MY logic - but Apple's.
When was the last time you called Apple to buy ProDOS?

Roy