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.