From: Robert Benschop (robertbenschop_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 00:52:32 PDT
on 21-06-2001 7:25, Eric L. Strobel at fyzycyst_at_home.com wrote:
> I've sort of come to the conclusion that if we, as a community, have done
> our level best to locate the authors/copyrightholders of abandonware, and
> are unable to, then our moral duty has been discharged. As a practical
> matter, at that point the likelihood of anyone coming after one of us for
> "piracy" is pretty darn small. Further, the monetary amount to be gained is
> so small as to further discourage action. My bottom line is that, once
> we've tried hard to do the right (morally) thing, then I've got no problem
> with posting packages or even cracking their registration. After all, if
> the author can't be contacted to complete the sale, then there's no
> financial damage anyway.
So would it be a good idea to compile a list of neglected Newton software ?
One of them used to be Tibet but AFAIK somebody on the list now bought the
license, so how are we to deal with Tibet for instance ?
Seems that Hexdump and Bricks2 might eventually join the list as well
(after some more effort on our side I would say, don't really want to rush
these things and end up with the list as a place for illegal stuff)
Robert Benschop
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