rights vs preservation

[Amithony]

kamiga wrote:

It seems, on its face, to be stupid to let books fall apart, software go bad on a floppy, instead of preserving them.  What a waste.

What do you think?

Keith

I agree 100%. If I owned all of the rights to Amiga software and Hardware and books, I would make them public domain. I can see our machine sinking as time moves forward. Nobody wants to see that. But i guess we're entitled to an opinion. Here's hoping the Minimig can "re-kindle"(no pun intended amazon) interest. Heres looking forward to the MinimAGA. (A1200?)

[Amithony]

kamiga wrote:
For what it's worth, I managed to contact the producer of the show I mentioned a couple posts back.

Incidentally, the producer seemed to think that a mailing campaign of a few thousand people signing a petition and submitting it to Universal Home Video would do the trick.

Just a follow up

Keith

If only we could do the same for the Amiga to do the trick.

[Amithony]

Sig999 wrote:

Although I think that is sucks when something drops off the map and it's no longer supported - I don't agree with your premise.

We didn't pay to have the software produced. We paid for a piece of software that did something we wanted.  So the whole concept of 'getting what's owed us' falls down, because nothing is really owed us at all after the fact.

I guess that means they shouldn't worry too much if the software gets distributed over the internet for FREE. If they are no longer interested, they shouldn't care what happens to the source should they?