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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 + Amax == Iici?
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.154417.1086@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 90 15:44:17 GMT
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In article <4517@sage.cc.purdue.edu> ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) writes:
>In <1990Sep26.153139.5802@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) writes:
>
>
>>As distressing as it will seem to us 'legit' Macintosh owners, you don't
>>need to buy the 128k ROMs.  A friend of mine with an Amiga has a version
>>of the Amax software hacked by pirates that reads in the Mac ROM from
>>disk.  Actually he got the whole Amax thing and the Mac ROM on disk for
>>the cost of downloading off a pirate board somewhere.  
>
>You are awfully brave to admit that you know of someone who has an illegal
>copy of Mac ROMs and he is still your friend. Is he in jail yet? Nope?
>Should be.... ;-)

Did you know that Macsbug calls the police every time you do an IL in Macsbug
in ROM?
(You may not disassemble, reverse compile, reverse engineer, etc, etc, etc)

Seriously,(and in response to a previous message)
I believe there are some states where 'shrink-wrap' licenses
like that on the system software are not valid.  In such a case, couldn't
a clone-maker make his clone there, and require users to buy Real Apple
system software?
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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