Re: Ancient wares and present values

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:38:30 GMT, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
wrote:

>Nonsense. The volume of new software is so small, it wouldn't make a pimple
>on the ass of the body of existing software.  You've got it backward, the
>people you criticize are PRESERVING, not destroying the work of past
>programmers.

Preserving the works of the past is a good thing but making those
works illegally available to the entire world isn't.

A big part of the problem is people here have been pushing developers
away.  Wouldn't it be better if the developers themselves were to
stick around and preserve their software?  Unfortunately, some were
driven away by people here.  Nathan Mates is no longer around to make
his software available, give technical support for those titles or
even be inspired by people's use of his programs to update them or
create new ones.  Even Eric Shepherd publicly posted that he was no
longer working on Apple II projects because it wasn't fun anymore.
Luckily, he still has a lot of good friends in the Apple II world and
is still around and is still making his software available.

Had these developers not been pushed away, there would be more
software being created for the Apple II today.  If there were less
piracy going on in the Apple II world, more developers would be more
comfortable with releasing their software to the world and would
therefore be more likely to produce more titles or updates.

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