[Coco] Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior

[Aaron Wolfe]

I understand it is done out of a desire to be helpful, but copying files
from other active sites and redistributing them is simply not a good idea.

You currently have out of date versions of LWTools, VCC, and DriveWire on
your site.  These are not only the wrong files for a new user to download,
but they have been separated from important documentation found on the
official project websites.

The people who work hard to create our community tools don't need extra
headaches.  A link to their official site is helpful, copying select
content and redistributing it is not helpful.
 On May 25, 2014 8:21 PM, "Guillaume Major" <gmajor at videotron.ca> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Aaron,
>
> I'm the owner of the Color Computer Archive.
>
> The goal of this site is to provide a central repository to get Color
> Computer software and documentation. No harm to the coco community was
> intented by including active projects in the archive. They were included
> for completeness.
>
> If you feel some files doesn't belong to the archive, please indicate
> which ones and I will remove them.
>
> Guillaume
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe-
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> Subject: Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior
>
>
>  Who runs this site?  Can anyone get in touch with them and ask them to
>> please stop distributing outdated versions of software created and
>> maintained by other people?
>>
>> Its one thing to be an "archive" of software that is no longer under
>> development, but distributing out of date versions of current projects
>> does
>> nobody any good.  That's why active projects nearly always insist on
>> coordinated mirrors (or do not allow mirrors at all).
>>
>> The heart might be in the right place, but things like this make our
>> community even more difficult for newcomers.
>>
>> Never distribute the files of someone elses active project!
>>
>> /rant off
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