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Very cool! Being an IF collector, I acquired the source code to Restaurant at the End of the Universe years ago. It's generous to call it unfinished—it's barely

Very cool! Being an IF collector, I acquired the source code to Restaurant at the End of the Universe years ago. It's generous to call it unfinished—it's barely a game. I wasn't sure whether or not I could publish it, but it's great that this and much more are now available to everyone. I also have some internal Infocom emails and photos and things. Not sure if posting those would be welcome by the participants since most of them are still alive.

RandomBacon 8y ago
> Not sure if posting those would be welcome by the participants since most of them are still alive. Genuinely curious... is it okay to post private details of a person once they're dead? There are things that I want to keep private while I'm alive, and that I hope stay private when I'm dead. Does other people's curiousity trump my wishes just because I'm no longer around?
- LanceH 8y ago
  Once you're dead, what someone says or writes about you doesn't even need to be true (in the US).
- aidenn0 8y ago
  IANAL, but... In the US, it's reasonably well established that you have no privacy rights after death[1]. That doesn't necessarily make it safe to publish details about someone after they are dead though as property rights do exist through the estate of the deceased, so you may have to end up defending yourself from a defamation suit. In terms of it being "okay" there are unwritten rules about allowing some not-well-defined period of mourning before publishing private details, particularly ones that reflect poorly on the deceased. Publishing e.g. private correspondence of people from just 100 years ago seems completely non-controversial though. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_privacy
setpatchaddress 8y ago
Short answer: we've already been down this path. https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/ https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_seque... edit: if I had access to that data, I'd be interested in finding any hidden source files -- there's a copy of the source to a version of the ZAP assembler hiding in one of the minizork repos Jason Scott posted, for example. Might there be some others?

RandomBacon 8y ago

> Not sure if posting those would be welcome by the participants since most of them are still alive. Genuinely curious... is it okay to post private details of a person once they're dead? There are things that I want to keep private while I'm alive, and that I hope stay private when I'm dead. Does other people's curiousity trump my wishes just because I'm no longer around?

LanceH 8y ago
Once you're dead, what someone says or writes about you doesn't even need to be true (in the US).
aidenn0 8y ago
IANAL, but... In the US, it's reasonably well established that you have no privacy rights after death[1]. That doesn't necessarily make it safe to publish details about someone after they are dead though as property rights do exist through the estate of the deceased, so you may have to end up defending yourself from a defamation suit. In terms of it being "okay" there are unwritten rules about allowing some not-well-defined period of mourning before publishing private details, particularly ones that reflect poorly on the deceased. Publishing e.g. private correspondence of people from just 100 years ago seems completely non-controversial though. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_privacy

setpatchaddress 8y ago

Short answer: we've already been down this path. https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/ https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_seque... edit: if I had access to that data, I'd be interested in finding any hidden source files -- there's a copy of the source to a version of the ZAP assembler hiding in one of the minizork repos Jason Scott posted, for example. Might there be some others?