[Coco] Re: Re: Re: [Color Computer] King's Quest for the Coco

[Albert Stinger]

But, you do have a voice and some input with the NitrOS-9 project, and when 
in your previous post you went from helping another to attacking someone 
else, whom is not on this list, because of copyright infringement, then it's 
clear to me that you should have first voiced your opinion to have that 
project remove any copyrighted material and then attack others for doing the 
same. It only seems fair to me that your attack should start there first.

"Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> wrote 
in message news:4281717B.9080908 at worldnet.att.net...
> There have been lots of arguments in the Coco newsgroup over "abandonware" 
> and I don't want to start another one. The "double standards" if any are 
> not mine. I don't have any control over what is part of the NitrOS-9 
> project and the legality of the entire project much less the "third party 
> software" has been discussed by the NitrOS-9 group. Profit or lack of it 
> has no bearing on whether distribution is legal; just the likelihood of 
> prosecution.
>
> Clearly your point of view is at odds with many of the software developers 
> on this list who value their work and want to maintain control over it. If 
> you can find free software on the Internet great. I prefer not to 
> distribute copyrighted material but will help others use whatever they can 
> find.
>
> Albert Stinger wrote:
>
>> Robert are you one of the developers working on the Nitros9 project?
>> you said:
>>
>>
>>>"Robert Gault" wrote in message...
>>>The real problem now is that, far as I know, KQ3 is still under
>>>copyright and therefore ought not to be available on the Internet.
>>
>>
>> I'm confused is there a double standard for this project and the rest
>> of the people. If you look in the nitros9 project you will find King 
>> Quest 3,
>> King Quest 2, and King Quest 1. The complete packages. It's been there
>> for a very long time and available too many downloader's. Is this a 
>> double
>> standard or what? Just a little confused with talk of Copyrights and 
>> such.
>> I could understand if someone was making lots of money from giving away
>> old Tandy software and suddenly the CoCo was popular again, but I think
>> you'll choke what little life that's left right out of the CoCo if you 
>> keep on
>> insisting on your double standards.
>> <snip>
>
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