[Coco] Announcement re Ved, VPrint

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Fri Nov 14 14:15:30 EST 2014


My feeling is that Bob probably was simply requesting that people refrain
from selling his stuff, in the full awareness that such a request was
legally unenforceable once he declared the software to be public domain.

Art

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Kandur <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

> Are you suggesting that Bob could/should withdraw
> his softwares now in PD from PD and release them as FW?
>
> Kandur
>
> Friday, November 14, 2014, 9:19:16 AM, you wrote:
> > How about getting back with Bob and clarify it to be FREEWARE". I believe
> > that would be the intended form of distribution and he can still hold
> commercial rights.
>
>
> > On Nov 13, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings all;
>
> > I got this reply from Bob just now.  He has blessed us with this quote:
>
> > "I have no way to make any retail copies of the programs and don't even
> > know if I still have readable source code. And, it's been a very long
> time
> > since I made a nickle from any of this ... so ... here's the announcement
> > you can pass along to the CoCo group:
>
> > *  Effective immediately (Nov 13, 2014) all of my OS9 and Color Computer
> > programs are released into the public domain. Feel free to trade and
> copy.
> > Just don't make any money from my labors!*"
>
> > So I'd say you can pass it along and put it in our archives as long as
> > everything but the bandwidth is free.  You pay for that when you pay your
> > monthly ISP bill.
>
> > One way to show your appreciation might be to purchase one of his music
> > cd's at his mellowood.ca site.  He can make some very nice music with a
> > licorice stick (clarinet).  I have a copy of his "Cedars" cd, and its
> nice
> > easy listening.
>
> > <http://mellowood.ca/music/cedars/index.html>  Or you can start at the
> > home page, his lady, Val, is an artist and does some nice things too.
>
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
> > US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
>
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