Re: Building An Apple ][ Software Archive

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

> Umm, I hope that doesn't mean that you would like to host a site that
offers
> software that is still copyrighted. I don't know experientially that
asimov did
> have such software, since I'd never accessed it myself, but I have read
posts by
> people, both those who care, and those who don't care about whether such
> software is copyrighted, that asimov did have such software there. Unless
you
> are your own ISP I would suggest that you make every effort to ensure that
only
> public domain, freeware, and shareware software would be offered on any
site
> that you host. And, thanks again for being so generous to the A2 world.

Unless you own the majority of the net's backbone you are at the mercy of
upstream providers. Almost every ISP has an upstream provider(s) from which
it can be disconnected if continuing to violate terms of service. No-one is
immune from vogons :-)

Simon.