It was Mac84, not "someone"... just give credit where credit is do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIoaulKYJY&pp=ygUFbWFjODQ%3D
I have, especially in the "Final Remarks" section with special emphasis on the archival and sharing of all the CHRP releases. I guess it is easy to miss because it's such a big post, but it's right over there:
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Final remarks
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Above all, thank you to everyone that made this possible. But I wanted to emphasize and give special thanks to Rairii for engineering all these ROMs, Mac84 for archiving and sharing all the CHRP discs, ELN for engineering all the Mac mini G4 ROM compatibility scripts and creating all the ROM and other Mac OS tooling, and to the Mac community at large everywhere that assisted in all of this into becoming reality. There's honestly many, many people to thank we owe over this one way or another, both in small and big ways.
The exact quote you highighted was meant to credit and cover at least two different people in one go:
- Someone who is not Mac84, who is the person (people?) who kept those CDs recorded and intact for all these decades, and who decided to let them go to different hands;
- Mac84 himself, for generously and selflessly going after these releases, securing them, archiving them and sharing them with the world and the community at large, while simultaneously making an incredibly helpful and educational video about it.
In other words, I wanted to credit everyone down the chain: the public archivist (Mac84) and the decades-long preservationist(s) who had the CDs all along (unknown/ undisclosed person or people), while also getting the whole information / story across with as much brevity (as much as I could without cutting info out) to everyone by relying on hyperlinks plus a "Final Remarks" section so that there would be no misgivings about who did what. (I hyperlinked to both the Macintosh Garden and archive.org pages, as both lead to Mac84 as the public archivist of CHRP, which also contains the YouTube video link, for that very reason.)
To be even more precise:
- The "someone" in what you highlighted refers specifically to the decades-long preservationist(s): "someone preserved some of these Mac versions, [...]";
- The part that follows immediately after is Mac84: "[...] which were then acquired and preserved and shared with the world".
So you are not exactly right about your attribution, if we are to be pedantic... But moving on.
I hope this thoroughly suffices to clear up your misunderstanding. I commend your willingness to stand up for what is right, but it is equally important to be careful to go through the whole thing first before pointing fingers...
