#: 11562 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    31-Jul-91  23:54:24
Sb: #11515-you better read this
Fm: PaulSeniura 76476,464
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)

You quoted only part of the text that explains the copyright.  I also said I
was asking for feedback for these ideas and YOUR ideas would be protected as
well and fully acknowledged if anything ever comes out of these various
projects.  I even explained this latter part to you more than this one time!

And I'm trying to do it in such a way that the whole OS9 Community will become
involved.  Delphians have been more active than anyone on CIS here.  Shoot, I
even mentioned that in the second Timer article update.  (You didn't see any
CIS members mentioned except for yourself, did you? :-)

I coined the "pessemistic" term upon myself due to the fact that I can't get
the OS9 Community involved in ANYTHING.  We're talking about several different
projects remember.  *Still* nothing on the "undocumented Stat calls" for the
Acia project.  Still nothing on the CoCo battery backup project.  We ditched
trying to get a response from SCSI interface companies in wanting to come up
with a decent tape backup system; and the CD-ROM discussion we had here a while
back died likewise since it involved those same SCSI companies.  (Disto,
OwlWare, those KMA companies, no one responded.)

I replied to Steve Wegert (see reply to his msg #11520) explaining how long
we've actually been waiting for feedback.  If you care, you might like to read
it, too.

GEnie managers already got a lashing quite some time ago, mostly concerning how
their MIDI users won't provide files using a universally available archive
method.  You can't use Standard MIDI Files if the stupid file is in those weird
formats like ZOO, LZH, SIT, etc.  The IMA should look into why that kind of
practice is allowed -- defeats the whole purpose of having standard file
formats, the SMF directly being controlled by the IMA.  Lessons we can all
learn.

So having said all of this, let me get on with the other questions you typed.