Re: Apple II Reference Manual ("Red Book")

[mlafranc@home.com (Michael Richard LaFrance)]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:57:54 -0500, Roy and/or Janet Miller
<millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:

>Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> 
>>> # From: cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2)
>> # Well, here's the final comment I'm going to make on it all.  I got an OK
>> # from Woz on my request for doing a cover to cover scan and that's good
>> # enough for me.
>> 
>> That should settle the question, shouldn't it?  There's no need for
>> you to worry about copyright issues here.
>> 
>> 
>> If you still feel concerned about this, don't bother the ng with
>> anymore posts about it.  Instead contact Woz directly -- he wrote that
>> book.
>
>Woz didn't write the Red Book. He did contribute to it, but wasn't the
>author. Now, I'm still checking, and I'm not certain, but I think it was
>Randy Wigginton or Chris Espinosa who is the author. Jeff Raskin was
>hired by Apple to make their documentation professional and that's why
>the Red Book was ditched.
>
>BTW, Don Lancaster has been trying to sell his copy of the Red Book,
>and, if memory serves, he want's $200 for his copy.
>
>Roy Miller

Who cares who the author is, you forget that copyright is almost
alwawys helt by the corperation funding the publication or production,
ie. apple.