[Coco] My Coco .dsk shared directory

Brian Blake random.rodder at gmail.com
Fri Dec 24 10:50:00 EST 2010


Bruce,

I'd just remove the games that triggered the take down request. My online
archive has a bunch of stuff available, with one directory where the file
permissions are set for no public access. I did this because I knew the
person has not and most likely never will release the games.

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Francis Swygert <farna at att.net> wrote:

> James, don't be so apologetic for trying to help the community. No harm was
> intended, and most likely not done. Unless something in your directory is
> actively being sold or is available you did no harm to anyone. There are a
> few authors who still actively protect their interests in 20+ year old
> programs that are useless to all but a handful of people, but most in the
> CoCo community don't mind the sharing going on now. If you had newer
> releases of actively available software just move them to a separate
> directory and don't share them -- problem solved. You may have to move a
> program to that not shared directory on occasion, but that's not too much
> trouble is it?
>
> I didn't use your archive, but it's nice to know something like that is
> available.
>
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> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:59:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: Bruce James <kb8kac at yahoo.com>
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