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Re: Raise the Jolly Roger!
Zorin the Lynx wrote:
> I remember that nutcase Nathan Mates. The sad thing is that he was
> actually an agreeable fellow, and contributed a lot to the community
> before he went on his ALL PIRATES MUST DIE streak.
>
Yep. I picked up my first Apple II at the precise instant that he went
off the deep end. I found the Apple II faq on his site, then went back
a few days later to get more info, and all there was left was a message
saying he'd destroyed his site and all the files to spite the Apple II
software pirates. And this was years after they stopped making Apple
II's. These guys just don't have a clue. Software piracy had NOTHING
to do with the demise of the platform.
> Seriously, there's almost no market for Apple II software these days.
> I'm surprised there isn't more of an open-source attitude among
> developers, working together to keep the community alive, rather than
> all this ravenous bickering over the last few remaining dollars in
the
> community.
>
Make that pennies. It's ludicrous to try to make money peddling Apple
software.
> Is software like Proterm still making the authors a reasonable sum of
> money? If not, how come it hasn't been open-sourced? (If it is
somehow
> making oodles of cash, then never mind, of course };) )
>
Yes, the objective now should be preservation.
Apple II Piracy Forever! Fly it with pride!
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