[Coco] The end of the Hot Coco saga?

[James C. Hrubik, Sr.]

On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:19 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 00:18 -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
>
>> I think a different approach should have been used with less 
>> agression to
>> reach somebody at IDG who has a say in this matter.  Instead of 
>> trying to
>> make it happen so quickly by arguing about the copyright laws, some 
>> sort of
>> sales pitch might have been effective that convinced the right people 
>> at
>> IDG that a completely dead and useless old yellowed magazine is 
>> wanted in
>> electronic form for archival purposes by MANY vintage computer users.
>>
>> So, since Plan A seems to have failed, maybe Plan B should be a 
>> petition
>> from those many people who have a bigger voice than the person from 
>> IDG who
>> was so quick to shoot down a good idea.
>>
>>
>
> All the people with a sense of pride in the original material are no
> longer associated with IDG, unlike Lonnie & Rainbow. So it's all about
> the dollars and cents.
>
> Do you think a petition would work? The thought had crossed my mind as
> well. How many people could we get to sign? What clout do said
> individuals have with IDG? If we could get them to release something,
> how many issues could they expect to sell, and at what price? Would it
> be enough to justify the cost of clearing up copyright ownership 
> issues.
> Or would the community be doing that research work as part of such a
> project?
>
> -- John

If IDG were publicly held, the thing to do might be to look up a major 
stockholder and explain the problem to that person.  For a privately 
held company ( I couldn't find them listed on the exchanges), the 
approach might be to go to the owner.  Finding an email address could 
be tough, but if a /. article explaining the problem were published, it 
would soon come to the attention of a data services company owner...

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