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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Atari ST emulator for the Amiga: Atari's position
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Date: 18 Oct 90 04:59:19 GMT
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In article <6737@castle.ed.ac.uk> aiajms@castle.ed.ac.uk (-=Andy=-) writes:
[some opinions and descriptions deleted]
>I personally agree with what a guy said on comp.sys.atari.st concerning
>Apple and GNU. GNU do not port their stuff onto Apple because of the
>aggressive attitude they take to people emulating their products (NOT
>PIRACY WHICH IS QUITE DIFFERENT) and the law suits that follow. 

Nope.  As I understand it, the GNU issue had _nothing_ to do with emulation.
It was a result of Apple's look-and-feel bull regarding the appearance
of competing products such as MS Windows, HP New Wave, and earlier, GEM.
Apple _popularized_ the use of a mouse and windows, but did not _invent_ it.

Although the Free Software Foundation (creators of GNU and the associated
utilities) do not claim a copyright to their work (in fact, they have a
"copyleft"), they do not oppose others protecting their work.  Apple
has not bothered those who market  Macintosh emulators based on legal copies
of their ROMs.

>-=Andy=-
>
>
>PS the ST version of SIM City runs ok on the emulator!
>
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