From: et472@ncf.ca   
      
   On Sat, 9 Mar 2013, Clu wrote:   
      
   > On 3/5/13 1:14 AM, Tom Lake wrote:   
   >> "Bill Gunshannon" wrote in message news:apkbpeFa6jhU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>   
   >> Has anyone ever approached Tandy about the possibility of their   
   >> releasing their old TRS-80 software sources to the world? I   
   >> can't imagine this stuff has any real value left at this point   
   >> but it would be fun to play with. Imagine a port of TRSDOS to   
   >> the PC. :-)   
   >>   
   >> bill   
   >> Most of Radio Shack's (There is no longer a Tandy Corp. -   
   >> They changed their legal name) IP was sold to AST when they got out of the   
   >> business. The contents of the BASIC ROMs were owned by Microsoft   
   >> for Level II and Model III BASIC. Of course Frank Durda or other Radio   
   >> Shack   
   >> experts could give you more info.   
   >>   
   >> Tom Lake   
   >   
   >   
   > There was an interest to start a Tandy website mentioned on Atariage:   
   >   
   > http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/207383-tandy-website/page   
   _hl__trs#820880#entry2673754   
   >   
   > Check it out, give it support!   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   But why?  Such websites exist, some can be pretty detailed.  That's one of   
   the problems with the internet, once everyone wsa let in, it means people   
   rush ahead without looking at whatever exists.  If something isn't in   
   front of their face, they figure it doesn't exist, and thus rush to   
   action.   
      
   Besides, what does this have to do with the state of the copyrights on the   
   software?  The only thing I see is a suggestion that this might be a   
   bootleg site, about archiving software rather than infomration.   
      
      Michael   
      
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