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"Knut Roll-Lund" wrote in message
news:ofednZ1EG85IGXLaRVnzvQA@telenor.com...
> Hi
>
> You don't understand why the selling of DVD's at good price referring to
> Ira's archive is endangering Ira? Think about it. It's much like the GNU
> licence; as long as it is free we allow copying. I would be pretty pissed
> of if someone started selling wav2cas (it is for free - if someone is
> going to make money of it it should be me).
>
> Anyway I had hoped he could put up part of the archive again. Some of the
> stuff is public domain. Possibly someone else could too... I have some
> stuff on my site and there will be more. It is just a private accound so
> there won't be that much...
>
> Knut
>
> FRED wrote:
>> I gave him some of the stuff!! some of it had to be destroyed so a copy
>> could be made and I said that was OK because everyone would be able to
>> get a copy, now no one can get a copy and the stuff is destroyed. Nobody
>> gives a stuff about the copy write of 30 year old software.
>>
>> He's only pissed off because some prat sold some DVDs of the software on
>> eBay, so by cutting off all supply the stupid fuck has increased the
>> value of the pirate shit on sale on eBay, perhaps he's selling it and
>> wanted to make it more exclusive.
>> But I would not piss on him if he was on fire
>>
>> IRA IS ONE OF THE INTERNET'S TRUE WANKERS
>>
>>
>>
>> "turnkit" wrote in message
>> news:ea15b915-6fec-4162-a379-a50b10f4f51b@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>>Okay Fred, fair enough to be angry that we can't all get the copies,
>>>but is it really mature or right to direct that anger at Ira? Again,
>>>if you want to interpret the copyright laws (and consequence for
>>>challenging some people's interpretation of those laws) differently
>>>then Ira then can't you host the stuff yourself or encourage someone
>>>else to do it? Calling Ira names over the issue misses the
>>>frustration we ALL have, including I can only guess Ira has, but you
>>>know it's really just immature. Even though this "internet thing"
>>>somewhat hides people's identities we are still real people reading
>>>and writing. C'mon man, channel you anger into something constructive
>>>instead of blaming Ira. Really, you owe him an apology; he too wants
>>>to share the stuff -- it's evidence by the fact that he once did b/c
>>>at one time he felt it was safe to do so -- but calling him a 'greedy
>>>arse'?
>>>
>>>Either you are trolling for attention, which makes me an idiot because
>>>I am attempting to be reasonable with you, or you really are missing
>>>what's going on here. If it's the latter -- that you are missing the
>>>issue, then it would be helpful if you would try to more mature and
>>>try to understand that Ira shared when he felt he could but obviously
>>>doesn't now, not because he's "greedy" (doh!) but because of the
>>>greyness of the law, and you ought apologize.
>>>
>>>I don't think I've much more to say to you on this. But that I'd hope
>>>you try to be responsible with what you can so you can make a positive
>>>difference. Again, we'd all love it too if you'd start a site. See
>>>if Home of the Underdogs or some group wants to host TRS-80 financial
>>>software, Cobol apps, or Model 4 hard disk drivers! lol.
>>>
>>>On Mar 28, 10:53 pm, "FRED" wrote:
>>>
>>>>it pisses me off after all the stuff I gave him that's all he gives back
>>>>and
>>>>keeps the rest hes a greedy arse
>>>>
>>>>"turnkit" wrote in message
>>>>
>>>>news:259abaf8-ce50-46fa-aef6-e3c0883e2526@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Mar 23, 10:15 pm, turnkit wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Mar 22, 10:11 pm, "FRED" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>Ira has put a new picture of a book cover on his site
>>>>>>>What an asset to the community
>>>>
>>>>>>Fred, don't be an ass et c. to the community.
>>>>
>>>>>>(I said it for the lulz.)
>>>>
>>>>>Seriously though Fred, you've got an interesting point ... if you'd
>>>>>like to do better than please do create web site of your own and post
>>>>>you new content links here.
>>>>
>>>>>If your just going to snipe we should all realize that your just
>>>>>trolling. (For those unfamiliar with the term a troll is one who
>>>>>posts inflammatory comments just to get a rise out of people and to
>>>>>create conflict. It is a passive-aggressive technique to allow the
>>>>>troll/inflamatory poster to feel like the are important and
>>>>>controlling something. Trolls are best left unfed because even
>>>>>commenting as I did tend to encourage them.) I am responding to you
>>>>>Fred in the hopes that you aren't trolling -- is there a possibility
>>>>>you might take responsibility for the legitimate parts of your concern
>>>>>-- that you'd like to see more TRS-80 content available to all -- and
>>>>>that you will create a repository of your own or are you just going to
>>>>>criticize someone else's efforts?
>>>
>>
> --
> Knut
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