Re: Bad blood?

[mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca]

In <38ED24EA.291575A2@pacific.net.au>, Matt Jenkins <mdj@pacific.net.au> writes:
>"R.A.Guy" wrote:
>> One side is still trying to make a living off a dead platform machine. They
>> want to protect copyrighted material to the letter of the law regardless of
>> whether the auther of the software cares what happens to his/her software.
>> 
>> The other side believes that the software should be made available to the users
>> who can no longer buy legitimate copies of the software. They can't buy copies
>> because it is no longer produced, nor sold.

I think another part is that if a title is unavailable, permission from the original
author should be confirmed before blatantly distrubuting it. I for one don't have
a problem with asking, it's only polite all it takes is the initiative to actually
do this.