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From: rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
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Subject: Re: We've been EMULATED.
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Date: 16 Oct 90 04:09:28 GMT
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In article <13612@cs.utexas.edu> psurge@cs.utexas.edu (Troy Carpenter) writes:
>
>I have copies of both of the emulators, I plan to send them to Atari and see
>what the legal dept. thinks.  Anyone interested can get them at the following
>site:
>
>abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov
>look in the directory /incoming/amiga
>give the command 'dir Atari*' and you will see the 4 files for it.

 I don't know what good something like this will do. 1)The original 
author of the emulator is unknown. Hence there is no one to take
legal actionn again. 2) The thing has been spread to the ends of
the Amiga community. (Almost every BBS I know of have it, and
this has been since 4-5 months ago.) There is also another version
which doesn't contain the TOS, it tells you to go out and find
the TOS on a bootable disk and put it in the drive. 3) It might
ruin a perfectly good Ftp site. Alot of net priveleges are disappearing.
Like alt.* groups and ftp sites being censored because of small
incidents like these. 3) The thing doesn't work on most amiga's.
4) It doesnt work well in color, and only seems to run about 50%
of ST software in Mono. 

  At most, some ftp sites will be forced to delete it, but its already in
mass circulation, and most bbs sysops won't even realize its illegal.
And out of the ones that do, they probably won't do anything about it.
I don't support piracy, but this is the cold hard facts. I have seen
AMAX spread around on BBSs and the majority of people thought it was
freeware. (Amax=Mac emulator)



>
>                                Troy Carpenter
>                        Department of Computer Sciences
>                        THE University of Texas, Austin
>                              psurge@cs.utexas.edu
>
>"You're so open minded that your brain leaked out" - Steve Taylor
>
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> 


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