[Coco] The end of the Hot Coco saga?

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:13 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote:
>We are lucky with Rainbow that Lonnie knows what he can and cannot do
>legally, and is happy to have people continue to enjoy Rainbow. Too bad
>we can't say the same for IDG and Hot Coco.


My guess is that IDG probably doesn't want to "afford" to investigate the 
technicals of this issue.  Instead of looking into what they could make off 
of a completely dead magazine, it seems like one person has done the 
decision making for the entire company or group holding the rights to the 
magazine.

I think a different approach should have been used with less agression to 
reach somebody at IDG who has a say in this matter.  Instead of trying to 
make it happen so quickly by arguing about the copyright laws, some sort of 
sales pitch might have been effective that convinced the right people at 
IDG that a completely dead and useless old yellowed magazine is wanted in 
electronic form for archival purposes by MANY vintage computer users.

So, since Plan A seems to have failed, maybe Plan B should be a petition 
from those many people who have a bigger voice than the person from IDG who 
was so quick to shoot down a good idea.


-- 
Roger Taylor