[Blindapple] Math games disk
Jayson Smith
jaybird at bluegrasspals.com
Mon Oct 7 06:35:52 EDT 2013
Hi,
On the subject of that math games disk with all those games people have
been talking about. I actually have that disk, and would be glad to make
it available. However, I'm not sure I can legally. I did find more
concrete information about the problem with MECC software titles on the
Wikipedia article about abandonware. Although this disk was released by
APH, it was a modified version of a MECC disk. Here's the relevant
section of the article.
There are groups that lobby companies to release their software as
freeware. These efforts have met with mixed results. One example is the
library of educational titles released by MECC. MECC was sold to
Brøderbund, which was sold to The Learning Company. When TLC was
contacted about releasing classic MECC titles as freeware, the
documentation proving that TLC held the rights to these titles could not
be located, and therefore the rights for these titles are "in limbo" and
may never be legally released.
Jayson
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