[NTLK] The NEWTON COMPLETE Project 1.0

[Sebastian Sparrer]

Forrest, I am totally with you in your opinion. I love my Newtons and 
would like to feed them with "new" software (that is software I did not 
know about before) but, since I am one of the people who also seed the 
"Newton Museum.dmg" torrent, I am concerned about legal issues.

Now here's the big question: Who is going to work the the "Newton 
complete" project? I see that William is already putting a lot of effort 
into it, but is he the only one? My idea would be to find some more 
contributors, and then try to find out the developer of the original 
software and contact them for a statement or release. We could set up a 
shared document in google docs where we track the software titles, the 
details about the developer and the state of their commitment or response.

This is certainly a task for more than one person and I would be happy 
to try and contact some of the German developers.

Best regards,

Sebastian


Am 28.06.12 21:02, schrieb Forrest:
> As no one has said anything about this yet, my conscience forces me to speak up.
>
> Before I say anything, let me mention that I am not a big fan of DRM or copyright law insofar as abandonware, etc. As I think I've pointed out before, here in Arizona we have a chain of stores that sell used CDs, DVDs, vinyl LPs, software, and so on. I've bought things there and certainly will do so again. I'm sure everyone here knows of a place (legal or not) where (used) software and other copyrighted works can be purchased.
>
> In a thread that was in one of William's emails, someone pointed out that care should be exercised as to the mention of sharing possibly still copyrighted software here on NTLK (and UNNA), that this has been a hot topic in the past and some might be offended.
>
> Let me say again: I am not one of those people.
>
> However, I am still constrained to point out that there is a possible legality issue here. For example, I have DateMan. It cost me $10, and is not abandonware. I am not entirely comfortable sharing it, as Hardy Macia (I think that's his name) was gracious enough to reduce the price to $10 after I emailed him. So, I think we need to decide which should be shared and which might still be "live" (although admittedly barely so).
>
> This debate raged through the early months of 2010, IIRC...I don't wish to restart it. But, like I said, I think we need to move cautiously here.
>
> Thanks,
> --Forrest
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> On Jun 28, 2012, at 9:46 AM, William Maloney wrote:
>
>> If
>> you have any of these, email it! If you have a serial for one of these but
>> no software, email it! If you have more than one, email it! If you have a
>> CD, disk, or floppy but cannot attach it over, contact me and we'll work
>> something out.
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