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

Rod Barnhart rod.barnhart at gmail.com
Wed May 11 00:04:07 EDT 2005


I musta missed something, as I did not see Robert attacking anyone.
<shrug> The statement he made was a factual statement, and I didn't
see him attacking anyone, unless it was so subtle that I missed it...

Rod


On 5/10/05, Albert Stinger <albertstinger24 at canada.com> wrote:
> 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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