Re: Videx's 'Desktop Calendar' for Lisa available here...

Honestly, you think Apple would actually care about Abandon-ware like LisaOS and Lisa 7/7 programs?
They've taken a blind eye to the Apple II world at least. It's of historical significance mostly.

I don't mind being a conduit for these types of programs...If Apple asked I'd definitely stop, but until then. Feel free to send stuff my way for re-distribution :-) I can setup FTP access somewhere.

-Chandra

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ray Arachelian <ray_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> gilles wrote:
>> not sure you can find workshop on ray's site... but it's on the mac
>> mothership...
>> here : http://www.macmothership.com/lisacontent/lisahome.html
>>
>
> That's right, I only put up some of the documentation.  This is to
> prevent Apple from coming after me. :)
>
> From what I understand, if you write an emulator, you cannot distribute
> ROMs or software for that machine - if you do, the legality of the
> emulator program itself goes into question (in addition to the separate
> instances of copyright violations).  At least this is my understanding
> of US law based on stuff written about the legality of emulators by
> others.  While I doubt that Apple would actually care enough about this
> to pursue it, I certainly don't want to open myself up to that possibility.
>
> This is why if you ever ask an emulator author for a ROM, they're not
> even allowed to tell you WHERE you can find one.
>
> This was one of the driving factors for writing the ROMless routines in
> LisaEm - most people could find the LOS disks just fine on their own,
> but have a hard time finding ROMs.
> While there are (occasionally available) perfectly legal copies of Lisa
> Office System and Pascal Workshop that showed up on ebay, either on
> original 3.5" floppies, or as part of the Apple Service Source CD series.
>
> So there is a legal way for someone to obtain copies of Lisa Office
> System and run them on LisaEm.  In this way, the emulator remains legal
> software - under the category of compatibility tools.
>
> Ideally, I'd love for there to be a site that has all the documentation
> and all of the software.  But I myself can't run such a site without
> Apple's blessing.  Something like this exists in the form of
> bitsavers.org - they've got both software and PDFs, but I don't see very
> much stuff available for the Lisa (there are the UniPlus manuals but not
> much else) - probably for the same kinds of concerns.
>
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