>Hello - > >I've just found out that there were 21 issues made of SAM2Sam. Which >is a bit of a surprise.
Hang about... Sam2Sam was *your* magazine, wasn't it?? How can there be any more issues than you know about, did you compile them in your sleep or something? >Any news on previous issues of FRED? Are they PD yet? If so, we >should try and get them up on nvg. I think issues 1 to 12 are up already. I doubt there are plans to upload any more. How do you mean, "PD yet?"? Copyright will not expire, as such, until 72[1] years after the copyright-holder's death. Yet, I suppose, if the copyright-holder declared FRED to be PD, then it would be such. But that isn't as easy as it might sound, because I _think_ the authors of the individual programs are currently the copyright-holders, and not Colin MacDonald or Persona the current owners. Then again, IANAL.[3] It's all a bit hazy - but certainly I didn't sign any sort of copyright release when I submitted my programs to FRED. I'd assume I implicitly granted permission for my program to distributed, for that month, on the disk magazine, but I think the copyright on the program would still be owned by me. If the magazine as a whole were distributed online, that might be viewed as a violation of my copyright on my program. Personally of course, I'd have no particular objection to that, but I can see why it might cause problems. [1] Or was it 75?[2] [2] 50? [3] I am not a numbe^H^H^H^H^H^H lawyer. >And one other thing - why not start converting nvg files to .dsk >format seeing as it is just as easy to use on a PC, and yet can also >be back-written onto a SAM format disk. Wouldn't that be nice? I was going to help convert the .TD0 files to .dsk files myself, but unfortunately my plans were scotched by the relentless march of technology. Of the 7 PCs on my corridor in college (4 people's rooms...) not a single stupid one of them would run teledisk properly. So there's nothing I can convert.... One other related thing... I know I've asked this before, but there's been a bit of a rollover of list subscribers since then so maybe somone new can help with this: Did anyone buy (and still has a copy of) the "ILLUSION PD" disk from Sam PD? I want to make it available online, but I no longer seem to have my original copy and I can't remember exactly what I put on it (I think Derek changed bits of it anyway - added a proper menu, and instructions and things. I never really sent him a finished disk, just the accumulated programs and bits of junk I'd never seen fit to use anywhere else) >Just a few quick thoughts - this list is almost as dead as the >computer it is supporting at the moment... ;-) Dead?! Whimper... Are you sure it's not just pining for the fjords? Andrew -- | Andrew Collier | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Talk sense to a | Part 2 NatSci | http://carou.sel.cam.ac.uk/ | fool and he +----------------+-----------------------------+ calls you foolish | Selwyn College Student Computer Support Team | -- Euripides
