Re: [NTLK] Refocusing Energies ( Was: Re: OT: Copyrights, Abandonware and such... )

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 15:25:13 EDT


at the temporal coordinates: 9/7/01 3:17 PM, the entity known as Zachery Bir
at zbir_at_urbanape.com conveyed the following:

>
> On Friday, September 7, 2001, at 03:05 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
>> The problem I see is that even after a few dozens messages, nobody seem
>> to
>> have the last, decisive, definitive word on that, so I can't see how
>> this
>> will resolve to something.
>
> Agreed. At this point, it's becoming little more than mental mastur...
> well, you know.
>
> I'm with a few others. I'd much rather ( well, not much - let's see how
> idealogical I am once I start delving ) learn to write apps that
> approach the functionality that's already out there. Even in
> abandonware. Paul, I know you were starting up a tutorial list of some
> sort ( last year, I think ) that I got involved with before I had my
> Newton. Now that I have it, I'm about ready to start the delving again.
>
> Personally, I'm hoping we can redirect some of the energy we've been
> expending towards writing new and useful Newton apps that will keep our
> li'l green buddies a going concern well into the future.

The other positive thing that we can all agree on is to support each other
in our attempts to reach the copyright holders for the abandoned software.
If anyone has techniques that might work, please let's start discussing
that.

- Eric.

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