Re: Wanted: Appleworks 5.1

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a2mg@aol.comNomail (A2MG) wrote in message news:<20021005023929.02713.00007507@mb-cc.aol.com>...
> >I'm looking for "Appleworks 5.1"
> 
> AW5 is not in the public domain.  The only legal way to get it is buying it
> from an owner.  It is widely pirated, as you may already know.
> 
> I used to update any legal owner of AppleWorks to AppleWorks 5.1. I did this
> with the knowledge of the manager of development of version 5.1, the latest and
> last version of AppleWorks for the Apple II. 
> 
> We started this program after much discussion with AppleWorks programmers,
> developers, testers, writers, and users While we agreed that while it wasn't
> quite kosher, that it would be a "reasonable" thing to do for people who were
> _already legal owners_ of earlier versions, and it simply wasn't available any
> other way.   I also included some bug fixes, which helped with crashing on
> startup, a data base error,  and minor Y2K issues.  
> 
> Then someone on this board called me a pirate for doing it, so I stopped.  
> 
> What can you do......?  We tried.  :-)
> 
> 
> Beverly Cadieux 
> TEXAS II an international newsletter for users of AppleWorks(R) 5.1


What happened to your web site.  I have written to you twice about it
and yet you fail to reply to the emails.

Many of us still have our legal copies and would like to have access
to the fixes and patches.  I find it hard to fathom that one person's
complaint led to your ceasation of service.  If you are not going to
provide the service, perhaps you can allow someone else to take it
over.

The Apple 2 community has lost enough resources without losing the
important ones.