19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
10:29 p.m.
On 3/19/07, Billy Pettit <Billy.Pettit at wdc.com> wrote:
This is going too far - proposing that we deliberately
break the law so
this
young fellow can get all the software he wants. Isn't it about time to
end
this thread and ask Hex Star to stop harassing the list?
And Hex Star, please learn how to write a sentence. Your messages are
almost incoherent - long rambling lines of text with no beginning or end.
Surely your keyboard has a Shift key and a period key; please use them and
state your ideas more succinctly.
Billy
No need to be such a jerk...
Trust me, there are people who type sentences on message boards in a much
worse format then me, this definetly is not the worst nor bad by any means.
If you can't handle internet chat formats then you really do not belong on
the internet...as classic old timers like you guys sadly fade away in time
more of people like me with our new slang and ways of formatting messages
will come in and a version of formatting you're not familiar with and
probably would be quite hostile like you were to me to the new format that
will come. Times change as things change hands and different eras take
place, the 1990s and below were one thing, the 200s and up are quite
another.
My comment about Russia is NOT just to bypass US law, it is so that we can
upload things like Photoshop 2.0 and such which is not yet through the 70
year copyright experation law and as such one could still potentially be
sued by Adobe for spreading such copies of their software. However if one
was to host in Russia we'd be able to host said copies of Photoshop for our
vintage macs, and things like RAM Charger. The idea is NOT intended to be
such that people go and upload Mac OS X versions and whatnot to our archive
and it becomes a warez breeding ground. Absolutely not! It would merely be a
way to assure everyone that the sharing of 1980s-1990s vintage mac software
could be shared in the archive(s) without having the government on our backs
(which is unlikely due to the softwares age and the companies moving on but
still they could do it if they so wished). This would also allow us to host
Mac OS 1 and whatnot and be able to ignore cease and desist orders from
Apple. So to wrap it up, the comment is NOT intended to mean yeah, let's
host in Russia so that we can turn our vintage archive into a mac warez
archive! No, it's meant to mean that there's a possibility of getting
hosting in Russia so we could upload copies of RAM Charger, Photoshop 2.0,
Mac OS 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7.x without having to worry about being forced to
remove the files like other sites have been. It would merely be a extra
measure to ensure the integrity and longevity of our archive and the rare
vintage files enclosed in it. (btw, the files I'm referring to are vintage
mac files as that's my specialty but obviously this would apply to other
applicable files for other vintage computers) see what I mean? :-)
and this is not meant to be a selfish thing so I can get all the files I
want as Billy claimed, this is meant to help benefit all of us in our joint
venture to preserve what's still left of the vintage computer files and our
associated archives