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From: wieser@cs-sun-fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Bernhard Wieser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Wanting to snub Emulators
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.040936.29686@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 2 Nov 90 04:09:36 GMT
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Organization: U. of Calgary Computer Science
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This should be a dead topic.  Others can bash whatever they want -
its not like I spent hours writing my responses and carefully structured
every argument.  I also didn't included line-by-line commentary as
to what I didn't agree with, or carefully read only what I wanted to
from peoples responses, ignoring everything else and previous messages.

So what happened?  I don't want my Mac software to run on emulators.
I don't care which.  I wanted to know if any net-colleagues had 
the answer to my question 'What does Amax announce itself as?'  What
did I get?  Various e-mail insults and hate mail.  I asked myself,
why does this mail come majoritively from academic institutions?
I couldn't answer that one...

But back to those who misunderstood me or accussed me of using
contrived cases when I was following up other hypothetical news
articles;  Why don't you read all the chains carefully and keep your
bible bashing/irrelevant allusions/insults to yourself?

There are two main points which people conveniently avoided.
A MAJORITY OF AMAX USERS HAVE THE PIRATED SOFTWARE VERSION OF ROMS.
CONVERTING A DISK TO AMAX FORMAT IS A CHANGE IN FORM COUNTER TO MOST
SOFTWARE LICENSING AGREEMENTS.
I don't support piracy (or pirates), and I believe clones/emus are theft.
If Amax users buy the ROMs fine, they're hard to find.  If Amax
users buy a Mac drive, fine.  I agree with whoever said I should
state 'I do not support emulators', and just like unsupported
machines and OS, I want to try realize this and stop execution before a user
has the chance to hurt themselves.

(Ps.  I am not a Mac fanatic, which is why the 'computers are tools'
message appears in most of my messages.  I know what I wrote, and I'm
sure the nets don't need this lazy include everything approach to
posting, or critical to the point of stupid attitude.)