Re: Issues as of late

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>Subject: Re: Issues as of late
>From: Kelly Hall khall@acm.org 
>Date: 1/28/2005 7:40 PM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <bBDKd.17542$5R.14946@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>
>
>MechCD wrote:
>> I do not beleive your statements apply to the topic at hand, software that 
>> is for Apple IIs. I'd hate to see what Apple II software would take up a 
>> DVD-R
>
>Then allow me to restate my argument in a way your top-posting, Apple ][ 
>analogy-missing brain can easily grasp.
>
>The original statement by Greg Andrzejewski was, "The decision of how to 
>distribute a piece of software is the decision of the author."
>
>My reply: how many of the original authors of the Apple ][ software 
>archived on asimov decided that their software should be available in 
>that manner?  I would imagine that the answer is amazingly close to 
>zero.  Instead of the author, some happy uploader ripped a copy of the 
>disk image, transferred it to asimov, and now it's been mirror-ed and 
>downloaded by hundreds, or maybe thousands of other people.
>
>It's nice to think that the authors OKed this uncontrolled distribution 
>of their software, but reality is they had no control of the process up 
>front - the best they could do is react to the actions of others.  The 
>decision was made by the person who ripped the disk image and uploaded it.
>
>As for filling up a DVD-R, I would be in favor of a CD or DVD that 
>included most of the popular Apple ][ emulator programs and all of the 
>available disk images.  I've got similar CDs for MAME and a CP/M 
>emulator.  Muy convenient.
>
>Kelly
>
>

Well, you should get a broadband 
connection and/or DSL and go to
Google and make one for yourself.

 They have virtually everything ever 
online related to the Apple II series 
of computers available 24/7 and 
nobody can get it removed.

You could make a really through CD
and/or DVD set as you desired from
the contents offered in cache and you
could also check the Wayback machine
based at UCB for such.  That would
indeed be "Muy convenient."

I think every Apple II hobbist should have
such a collection.




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