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- From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Old software
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.224437.2195@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 22:44:37 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.213357.28919@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1992Jul24.195917.26248@microsoft.com>
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- In <1992Jul24.195917.26248@microsoft.com> darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka) writes:
-
- >In Article <1992Jul23.213357.28919@oakhill.sps.mot.com> jeffh@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Jeff Hunsinger-MUX_Tech) writes:
- >>Remember when there was a big movement to see if the old games had been
- >>released into the public domain (or to get the companies to do so)? Well,
- >>my results after contacting numerous companies were:
- >>No reply.
- >>No way.
- >>
- >>So...
- >>
- >>If you can find it for sale, buy it. If not, copy it.
- >>I hope to establish a "clearinghouse" for orphan software RSN...
- >>
- >>Jeff
-
- >Amazing. Not only are you offering to pirate software and telling other
- >people to do so, but you're actually offering to do this for people.
- >Not for free, I'm sure. How much do you plan to charge people for this?
- >Do you plan on sending any of the profits to the original companies
- >like Sierra or are you gonna bag all the profits yourself.
-
- Get a clue! Read what's posted! Jeff in no way offered to help pirate
- software. My understanding of his post (though I admit it was a bit vague)
- was that he would act as a middleman for people who had legal copies of
- software that they wanted to sell. In effect, eliminating the excuse that
- the programs aren't being sold.
-
- [...]
-
- >And give me a break. You 8-bit users are all pirates anyway, even though
- >only Jeff here will admit it in public. You want me to believe that
- >your typical Joe 6 Pack Atari user will be able to _only_ pirate software
- >that is no longer in production and refrain from pirating software
- >that is. Like your average user will _know_ which software it's "ok" to
- >pirate and which it isn't.
-
- So you're not an 8-bit user? Then what are you doing here in the first
- place? Actually, I suspect you've got an 8-bit with hundreds of pirated
- games and you're feeling a bit guilty, so you're releasing that guilt by
- flaming others who do what you do yourself. See a phschiatrist.
-
- Actually, you did actually bring up (by accident, of course) one legitimate
- point. You refer to software that is still in production. Is there any?
- Any at all? Is there even one company that is still producing software
- for the 8-bits? (I'm not talking about stuff sitting on store shelves for
- years, I want to know if there's still anything in PRODUCTION.) Furthermore,
- does anyone really believe that any of the old 8-bit software that is no
- longer on the market will ever be re-released for the 8-bits? I didn't
- think so.
-
- >BULL****!!!! You are a complete disgrace to the Atari community. I hope
- >you not only get sued by every 8-bit software developer past and present
- >but that you lose your net privilidges as well. You're also pretty stupid.
- >By blatantly offering your piracy services in public, you're opening yourself
- >for all sorts of trouble. Moron.
-
- >- Darek
-
-
- >--
- >/----------------------------------------------------------------------------\
- >| darekm@microsoft | What the above looked like to Homer Simpson: |
- >| Views expressed are my own. | Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah |
- >\----------------------------------------------------------------------------/
-
- --PC
-
- Smiley faces removed for the humor impaired.
-
- Isn't a nasty flame every now and then fun?
-