Re: Cracks/De-protects-- Computist stuff

[buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us (Greg Buchner)]

In article <6lqdjo$i4j$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul
Francis Gilbert) wrote:

>Ah, so what you're saying is that we should take your unknown word over that
>of a respected and long-time csa2 member that he is in fact a pirate, when
>you can't even produce a single bit of evidence for it. Methinks he is
>a Nuddite. ;-)

Respected?  Well, respect is earned and Rubywand has done nothing to earn
my respect.  Very few people on CSA2 have done anything to earn any respect
from me.  Me included. :-)

>Actually, I remember the article too. All Rubywand did was mention that
>a copy of Appleworks was on Asimov. He didn't say he promoted piracy. He
>didn't say that it was a warez or not, he didn't say he promoted piracy. He
>just mentioned it in passing.

Yes, but he could have easily have pointed them to Scantron Quality
Computers or Alltech Electronics first...places that are still selling
the software.

It wouldn't have been too difficult

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Subject:      Re: help finding sources on the net for Appleworks
From:         Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
Date:         1998/04/01
Message-ID:   <35231454.8A3F3A5F@swbell.net>
Newsgroups:   comp.sys.apple2
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Candace Richardson writes ...
> 
> Thank you to all those that have helped me repair my apple //e. it's
> working fine now and I have successfully replaced the ram chips.
> 
> I need help finding the Appleworks software for the Apple //e on 5.25
> disks. ....


     You can find Appleworks II as two disk image files on Asimov at ...

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/utility/word_processing/


Rubywand
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>It shouldn't be too hard to do a Dejanews search
>for Appleworks with an author of Rubywand, and point out precisely what in
>the article makes you think Rubywand is a pirate.

Promoting someplace you could acquire it illegally over someplace you could
buy it legally promotes piracy in my opinion.

Greg B.