Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!drivax!liberato From: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Is AMAX doomed? Message-ID: Date: 25 Sep 90 16:32:54 GMT References: <1990Sep24.214407.772@lavaca.uh.edu> Reply-To: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey, California Lines: 32 jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes: >From Robert X. Cringely's "Notes from the Field" column in InfoWorld: >... > As of September 15, Apple stopped selling Mac ROMs to anyone, unless they >are in exchange for a "broken" set. Previously, Apple dealers and service >centers could buy as many ROMs as they liked at $120 per set, but too many >were ending up in Outbounds and in Mac emulators for other computers." >Buy 'em now, buckos. The rationale for this really escapes me. It sounds like they are making them unavailable at _any_ price. This is particularly foolish since Mac ROM images have been available on disk for some time. This is blatant corporate encouragement of piracy and a foolhardy marketing move in the long term. Though I have not been very enthused by the ROM image files (mainly because they also contained pirated AMAX software and ReadySoft really should be supported) let's face it, the ROMs are not neccessary to the proper functioning of AMAX. This will really backfire on Apple. Hmmm, I just thought of something. Perhaps this is a first step in Apple's litigation against ReadySoft. If ROMs are made unavailable then ReadySoft is selling a product than can only be used with illegal Apple firm/software. It is a far stretch but who would want to face Apple's corp of lawyers? My ROMs were surplus used ones and as long as such a supply exists then that principle fails. -- Jimmy Liberato liberato@dri.com ...uunet!drivax!liberato