Re: My Website Has Been Taken Down

[PZ <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

On Apr 22, 6:44 pm, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 23, 10:01 am, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:
>
> > "Polymorph" <polymo...@a2central.com.remove-nxx-this> wrote:
> > >"You are free to distribute as long as there is absolutely no charge to the
> > >user. - Vince"
>
> > So what was accomplished in the end?
>
> Aside from a couple of website updates to remove CP binaries for
> download, very little it seems.  :-)
>
> I really do wonder why he went out all guns blazing to have it removed
> (i.e. threatening legal action), only to do a 360 degree turn a couple
> of months later to allow its distribution. Anyway, at least we still
> have CP available to us, and who knows, maybe Vince will be able to
> provide us with the manuals and other programming resources for CP,
> but I for one will not be holding my breath (for various reasons that
> I shall omit here).
>
> I'll wait to see if I can get any more details from Vince and then put
> the binary back up on my website depending upon his response.
>
> I'll keep you posted.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike

My impression was that he thought that Complete Pascal (my site at
least) had been posted for years (since the 90's) when in actuality
the software (v2.0) had only been rediscovered relatively recently.
His final email was quite sincere, I think initially he felt like he
had to play hardball since he didn't know who he was dealing with.  I
politely obliged to his request and everything was copasetic.  If I
were in his shoes and wanted to have some software removed, I might
have approached the situation in a similar manner.

I'm hoping we can at least get the most recent documentation and maybe
someday the source, but I get the impression that Vince is a private
person, so we should respect that and tread lightly, not pushing the
issue too much.

- Paul