Tag: software piracy

Open Apple #66 (December 2016) : Glenda “The Atom” Adams

Mike Maginnis
Posted by: Mike Maginnis Date: December 28, 2016
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This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Glenda Adams, better known on the Apple II as The Atom. She was a cracker of some note back in the 1980s, and she shares great stories with us of her exploits in boot tracing, cracking, and distributing software in the glory days of the Apple II BBS scene. We talk about the journey from programming to cracking, and back to programming again. We talk about the politics of the Apple…

An A.P.P.L.E. Editorial

Bill Martens
Posted by: Bill Martens Date: July 1, 1978
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By Val J. Golding A problem that arises in any such organization as A.P.P.L.E. is that of “Bootlegging programs.” We have a number of programs in our personal library which we have purchased from a software vendor,and when a friend says: “Gosh, that’s a neat program .. will you run me a copy off?”, we have to decline. Not because we don’t want to pass the program on, but because we happen to believe that the author / owner of…