[NTLK] The NEWTON COMPLETE Project 1.0

[Forrest]

GRRRR link did not come through...kind of anticlimactic now.

It wasn't quite dead yet... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh8mNjeuyV4

Thanks,
--Forrest

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On Jul 1, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Forrest wrote:

> I would suggest that anyone interested in the complicated issues of copyright laws, contacting authors of abandonware and so on research the NTLK archives from--IIRC--January to May 2010. (I'm doing a little guessing here, I haven't actually checked this.)
> 
> I seem to recall there was a discussion on who had been contacted, what results there were, etc. Of course, that was two years ago, much could have changed.
> 
> I thought we had beat the topic to death then...I guess I was wrong, though, as apparently it wasn't quite dead yet. 
> 
> Thanks,
> --Forrest
> 
> "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place." --Douglas Adams
> 
> •Have iPad questions? I'm the Mesa (AZ) iPad Examiner...see what I write about at http://exm.nr/HYeN8K+
> •Small and Medium Business Tech News, Reviews and Analysis: http://smb-tech-guide.com/
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> 
> On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:44 PM, Sebastian Sparrer wrote:
> 
>> Now here's the big question: Who is going to work the the "Newton 
>> complete" project? I see that William is already putting a lot of effort 
>> into it, but is he the only one? My idea would be to find some more 
>> contributors, and then try to find out the developer of the original 
>> software and contact them for a statement or release. We could set up a 
>> shared document in google docs where we track the software titles, the 
>> details about the developer and the state of their commitment or response.
> 
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