Jeff,
You've thusly pointed out the HUGE value of mailing lists like those on
Low-End Mac, and the resulting casual links to personal web-pages and
FTP sites.
As you said, legal reasons keep much "abandonware" from major
publishers like Micro$oft off the web archives, which in and of itself, is kinda
sad. But mailing lists make virtual friends all across the globe, and those
friends can share, trade, and buy/sell amongst themselves. It's "networking"
at its best!
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...
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"?
Bob
(Jeff G wrote:)
[snip]
Perhaps the saddest story is in the lack of archives for the applications
and programs that ran in System 6. You don't see ANY sites on the web as
repositories for say a Word 4 or a Works 3, or Photoshop 2 and so-on.
I understand it's a legal issue. But a true legacy maintenance system
involves active access to the apps that ran in the environment as well.
Jeff G
[snip]
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