Re: Interest in Golden Orchard II?

[johnlb@Primenet.Com (John Bowling)]

In article <digisoft-1312952202120001@dusk.stanford.edu>,
Jim Maricondo <digisoft@hypermall.com> wrote:
>I've received a few messages from people in reply to a previous post
>hinting of a possible Golden Orchard II, but I'd like to be more specific
>and ask for feedback.. (preferably post it, but email is OK too)
>
>What would be on Golden Orchard II?  My current ideas are to eliminate
>most of the graphics and sounds and concentrate on
>programs/applications/utilities, and AOL.  So there'd be newer versions of
>many things, along with many of America Online's Apple II Software
>Libraries in compressed and probably decompressed forms, with
>descriptions.  I also would like to setup a temporary ftp site for
>contributions and also accept contributions via disk, so that the AII
>community could have some input.
>

Why AOL?  I left their system years ago when they quit supporting Apple IIs.
Wouldn't archives from other online services be just as good?

Like Apple used us to pay their development of the Mac and then dumped 
us, AOL used our money to pay for far better service for Mac and IBM, and 
haven't updated the Apple software for OVER 8 years!

I hate this kind of discrimination no matter what company it comes from, 
and I also don't want to support them in ANY way, including the payment 
someone is making for the time to download the files for a CD.

Sorry, I wouldn't buy a CD of things from AOL unless the AOL section was 
a minor portion.

Other than that, I would love it.

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