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From: dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear)
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: 19 Oct 90 08:59:57 GMT
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Atari's position on this matter is correct. Although it may be considered
flattering for someone to emulate an ST on an Amiga (with all the "mine
is better than yours" type arguments around), the software copyright position
is clear - that software is illegal.

If you wrote a commercial piece of software and someone, without your
permission, ported this software to another machine would you not be
phoning your lawyer the instance you discovered it? Even worse, if your
software wasn't even ported - just binary copied and the target machine
hacked a bit so your software would work...

Whether or not there is a potential for loss of profit is not really the
issue. The issue is software copyright which is being breached. End of story.

Dave.
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