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The Death Of OS X Classic Mode - GlobalFax
The Death Of OS X Classic Mode - Engineering Software
The Death Of OS X Classic Mode - Mac Loyalists Most Affected
Canadian MusicBiz Racks Up Buoyant Profits Despite Canuck Penchant For Music Piracy
The Death Of OS X Classic Mode - GlobalFax
From Jeremy
I have many many historically important files created on various OS 9 programs. A considerable number are not translatable into OS X equivalents -- e.g., Global Village fax files. That fact will preclude my moving to Leopard.
I have difficulty imagining that you and I are alone. I'd even be prepared to pay an additional charge to Apple were they to offer Classic as an add-on to Leopard.
Hi Jeremy,
Hmmm. I actually hadn't thought of my GlobalFax files. I don't (obviously) access them very often, but I don't want to lose the facility to do so.
I don't imagine there's any realistic hope for a restoration of Classic Mode in OS X, but SheepShaver may be a usable workaround.
Sheepshaver is an Open Source third-party Classic runtime environment. The downside is that it It only supports up to Mac OS 9.0.4, but that should be suffucuent for you to run GlobalFax.
For more information and to download, visit:
http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/sheepshaver/
Charles
Re: The Death Of OS X Classic Mode - GlobalFax
From: Jeremy
Thanks, Charles.
I think you are onto something important in this thread, and I am going to add another observation to it.
Remember the pride Nikon used to take (perhaps they still do) in making their new systems "backward-compatible"? That may have been a determining factor in the purchases of some.
Thanks again,
Jeremy
The Death Of OS X Classic Mode - Engineering Software
From jscottk
And yet they ADDED legacy support for Windows. Go figure.
One area that Apple seems ignore is Engineering software. (And no, I don't mean UNIX X11 based molecular modeling programs.) The Classic OS supports quite a number of software packages (CNC, CAM, dynamic modeling, etc.) that simply doesn't exist in OS X. All were left with is "art" based 3D modeling and one (very expensive) CAD program that does machine design elements as a side line to architectural CAD.
The lack of Classic support means, for me and my small, family run business, is that I'll be skipping Leopard altogether. I'll have to wait a couple of years until I can afford another small business loan to replace office's Macs with Intel Macs. And then I'll have to put Windows on them to run Windows versions of the software I need. Yuk. (And yes, we are all being "forced" to upgrade eventually. Not even Mac hardware lasts forever.)
I wish someone would smack Jobs upside his head and let him know there's more to computing life than iLife. I've been waiting for SEVEN years for the promise of OS X to bring any engineering software to the Mac, with nothing to show for it.
Hi jscottk;
I hear you, and I love your comment about there being more to computing life than iLife. Personally, the only iLife application I use with any frequency is iTunes.
Charles
The Death Of OS X Classic Mode - Mac Loyalists Most Affected
From Jeremy.
Ironically, the more "deeply" one has used one's Mac, the bigger the hit from Apple's recent changes. Casual users can upgrade to Intel-based Macs and to Leopard with no trouble at all.
I wonder how carefully Apple thought through their recent strategy.
Hi Jeremy
Too true.
There's now a sizable new generation of Mac users who have no experience of the Classic Mac OS at all.
Mac360's Bambi Brannan thinks Apple is dumbing down the Mac OS to cater to them. I think she's on to something.
http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/
Charles
Canadian MusicBiz Racks Up Buoyant Profits Despite Canuck Penchant For Music Piracy
From John from Canada
I resent your title. It's not piracy if you pay for it. Having to pay for something means that you're allowed to do it.
Between 1999 and 2002, I never, ever downloaded, copied or shared any music. If I liked a song, I went and bought the CD. I was that way until I realized why blank CDs were so expensive in Canada compared to the US. Between 1999 and 2002 I bought eight spindles of 100 blank CDs each for my business use. At the time I didn't have a CD player in my car, only cassette. So I didn't even have any motivation to use CDs to copy music.
When I realized that I had paid the music industry $168 ($21 per spindle) for something that I've never done, I got pissed. Yes, I paid the music industry money that I worked hard for in order to compensate them for something that I had zero fault in. Later, I bought an iPod and paid an additional $25 levy, before it was repealed off music players. I hear now that they'll reinstitute that too. Since 2002, I have purchased an additional 12 spindles and paid the music industry an additional $252. But now I have no qualms about using some of those CDs for music. For a payment of $445 I figure that the music industry owes me a minimum of 445 songs. I haven't download that many yet.
Logically, if you pay for something, then it's yours. If you pay for music copying, then it's your RIGHT to copy. It's not piracy, we Canadians don't pirate music. It is our RIGHT to copy it. Anybody that says otherwise is either a liar or a crook.
It's the levy that caused the Canadian court to throw out the four lawsuits. They're getting paid for 'unauthorized' music copying. They shouldn't even try to stop it. They're taking our money and they dare to sue us for getting our rights?
Needless to say that since then, I haven't bought a single CD published by one of the majors, I only buy indy-published music. When I like something published by one of the majors, I simply download it (as is my right to do). I want the artists to get paid for their work; they deserve it. When I know that it is the artist that will get a good chunk of my money, I have no problem buying their CDs. But I won't pay the majors twice.
Your title should be:
Canadian MusicBiz Racks Up Buoyant Profits Despite Canuck Penchant For *Free Downloads*
Hi John;
You and I are actually very much on the same page philosophically on this issue, including the outrageous blank media "levy" (which I mentioned in the article), and I didn't intend the article title to imply negative critique of Canadian downloading habits. Hey; I'm Canadian, eh.
Perhaps I shouldhave put the term "piracy" in quotation marks, however, what I was referencing was Canada's *reputation* as a copyright piracy haven.
The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), of which Microsoft and Apple are members, earlier this year asked the US Government to put Canada on its high priority blacklist of intellectual property offenders, arguing that Canada is not doing enough to prevent piracy, and complaining peevishly:
"Canada’s long tenure on the USTR Watch List seems to have had no discernible effect on its copyright policy. Almost alone among developed economies in the OECD, Canada has taken no steps toward modernizing its copyright law to meet the new global minimum standards of the WIPO Internet Treaties, which Canada signed a decade ago. Its enforcement record also falls far short of what should be expected of our neighbor and largest trading partner. Pirates have taken advantage of the gaps in Canadian law to make it a leading exporter, both of camcorded masters that feed audio-visual piracy worldwide, and of devices – illegal in most global markets besides Canada – that are intended to circumvent technological protection measures used by the publishers of entertainment software. Canada lacks effective border controls on pirated products, and most of its other enforcement efforts suffer from insufficient resources and a lack of deterrent impact. To underscore U.S. insistence that Canada take action to address the serious piracy problem it has allowed to develop just across our border, and that it bring its outmoded laws up to contemporary international standards, IIPA recommends that Canada be elevated to the Priority Watch List in 2007."
It's inargauble based on repeated surveys that Canadians are more likely than Americans to download music files from the Internet and use peer-to-peer, file-sharing networks (as well as pirate business software). On the other hand, these accusations may be somewhat overblown. According to a <a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/178181">commentary in the Toronto Star</a> by Canadian academic Michael Geist:
"Based on recent media coverage, people unfamiliar with Canada could be forgiven for assuming that all Canadians sport pirate eye-patches while searching for counterfeit treasure. The "Canada as a piracy haven" meme has been floated with disturbing frequency in 2007 with regular claims that Canada is home to rampant music downloading, illegal movie camcording, counterfeit product purchasing and outdated copyright laws."
"Nevertheless, the cumulative effect of the piracy coverage has left some officials humming 'Blame Canada' and wondering whether the country deserves to be classified as a rogue nation when it comes to intellectual property matters."
That's certainly the IIPA's position.
The Bush Government decided against including Canada on the list prime piracy suspects which includes China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Egypt, India, Israel, Lebanon, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela.
However, for the fourth year in a row, Canada remains in the second division of copyright miscreants, in the company of Belarus, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, South Korea, Kuwait, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
The IIPA blacklist is initiatory to a process that can end in international trade sanctions. The organization complains in its report that "Canada remains far behind virtually all its peers in the industrialized world with respect to its efforts to bring its copyright laws up to date with the realities of the global digital networked environment. Indeed, even most of the major developing countries have progressed further and faster than Canada in meeting this challenge. Although the new Canadian government that took office in March 2006 expressed its commitment to modernization of Canada’s copyright laws, to date it has not even released a draft of legislation."
You can download the full IIPA report in PDF format here:
http://www.iipa.com/2007_SPEC301_TOC.htm
Aside from their factual assertions, I personally couldn't disagree with the IIPA more.
Charles
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