I think the worst example of legal shenanigans was demonstrated when
Apple's Legal Department forced the venerable "Mac512" web-site to
remove all copies of System Software from the first days of the Mac. What
possible harm could it have been doing to Apple Corporate? Were they
afraid that someone would put an illegal copy of System 4 on their
Mac512K and therefore decide NOT to buy the latest G4? It never made
any sense to me...
I agree.
Maybe groups like ours should communicate on a more formal basis
with software publishers regarding archiving abandoned versions of software
for hobbiests and posterity's sake? Just a thought... we could have a
slogan, "Happy Hobbiests Boost Sales"?
Over on the NeXT forums (http://next.z80.org/), we have been trying to convince IBM/Lotus to release Improv for free, and other software makers as well. So far, no luck. Some stuff is now public domain, but most is not.
If the NeXT ain't a "dead duck," as Byron says, I don't know what is... I mean, don't get me wrong - I LOVE my Cube and I'll never sell it... and I'll keep using it until it croaks. But come on, it gets REALLY hard to do fun stuff with old computers, when there's no source of legal software for it. I'm getting rid of an old SGI for just that reason...
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