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From: jcksnsr@nmt.edu (Jeffrey C. King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: We've been EMULATED.
Summary: Must consider copyright!
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.051537.11380@nmt.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 90 05:15:37 GMT
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In article <6343@cica.cica.indiana.edu> graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu writes:
>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
>
>Of what relevance is Atari's opinion?
>Wouldn't it make more sense to ask the authors?
>
>Amiga already has a darned good Macintosh emulator, which uses Mac Roms,
>and it is perfectly legal.
 
   There is a complete world of difference between a MAC Emulator which uses
ROMS produced by apple and an Atari Emulator which uses copies of TOS and GEM
to function... in the MAC emulator you are not making copies of someone else's
work, you are using a copy sold to you by THEM for your purpose.  

   If the Atari emulator (which apparently sucks) uses bogus copies of TOS and
GEM then the people producing and distributing that emulator have violated
the copyrights of both ATARI and DRI...
 
   It is important to note that othert emulators and PC clones use versions
of the operating system written by their producers or licensed legally and not
simply direct copies of the parent OS.  This is one of the reasons why
emulators and clones are not 100% compatible..

JEff