Re: Bad blood?

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

R.A.Guy <ljsilicon@aol.comSpamSUX> wrote
>
> It's simple....
>
> 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.
>

That's one issue, but apparently some software that WAS available for
purchase was also being copied, and rather brazenly. This naturally enraged
the people who were putting a lot of work into programming for a dwindling
customer base.
-Paul