Re: Software piracy [was 840av]

2003-01-20 Thread Scott Holder
At 02:54 AM 1/20/2003 -0500, you wrote: Probably not unless and until the owner had officially published a release. See PCSetup 2.0's release, for an example. As near as I can tell, PCSetup 2.0 is a case of the original company being bought out, plus having a license from Apple. It's clearly

General Warning / Nanny Rant - List Mom please note

2003-01-20 Thread vincenzo
Salutations to all, It appears some members of the Qlist are unhappy with the way the Qlist is being run from the point of view of the Nannies. Why don't we step in sooner when things go OT? Why don't we let the thread run it's course when it's OT It appears I especially have not

Re: Software piracy [was 840av]

2003-01-20 Thread E McCann
At 11:36 PM 1/19/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed thusly: On this note, does anyone know the legalities of abandoned software? Is there an inventory anywhere of what software is legally abandoned? Also, what is the legality of software where the co. that produced it is no more, hence it is not

Re: Quadra 610 PDS DOS Card in other '040s?

2003-01-20 Thread edjones
Hi I once ran a PDS dos card in my Q650, and it worked just fine. The one problem was the cables. I have to use string to support the cable from inside the machine, and feed it through an empty nubus slot. Can't find copy of site where I got info how to do it again though. I did remember

Re: Software piracy [was 840av]

2003-01-20 Thread Clark Martin
At 2:48 AM -0500 1/20/2003, Scott Holder wrote: As far as I know, in the case where the copyright holder truly doesn't exist any longer and wasn't just bought by someone else (thereby transferring the copyrights in most cases), it would then be legal to distribute it. But remember, a company

Re: Chat Software

2003-01-20 Thread Ronald Bos
I do not know if we're going too far off-topic now, but we'll hear soon enough one of the nannies complaining. Considering compilers you have basically two choices. The most important two are: MPW (Apple's tools, free) and Metrowerks Codewarrior (not free.) About porting gaim to MacOS 7.5: this

Re: Quadra 610 PDS DOS Card in other '040s?

2003-01-20 Thread mike
On 20 Jan 2003, edjones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I once ran a PDS dos card in my Q650, and it worked just fine. The one problem was the cables. I have to use string to support the cable from inside the machine, and feed it through an empty nubus slot. Can't find copy of site where I got

Re: Quadra 610 PDS DOS Card in other '040s?

2003-01-20 Thread Tina Holm
At 9:10 +1100 21/01/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This page may be of interest for those wanting to try the 610 DOS card in Quadras other than the original 610: http://www.bme.unc.edu/~hope/linx/mac/dosmac.html Ahh, there it was. The info about Q800 and the DOS card hasn't been updated though.