Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!vd09+ From: vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Wanting to snub Emulators Message-ID: Date: 3 Nov 90 02:48:05 GMT References: <107918@convex.convex.com> <1990Oct31.140745.12752@cbnewsc.att.com> <1990Oct31.150313.9742@wuarchive.wustl.edu>, <1990Nov2.140502.13954@sisd.kodak.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: <1990Nov2.140502.13954@sisd.kodak.com> > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.mac.misc: 2-Nov-90 Re: Wanting to snub > Emulators Ed Hanway@sisd.kodak.com (936) > >So just rewrite your program, and go for a clean kill on pirated > >macintosh ROMs. > And be prepared for possible legal consequences and/or subsequent damage > to your reputation when your "clean kill" causes someone to lose > important data. I thought that that was the point of including appropriate disclaimers. Besides, I don't think you could lose data if you couldn't run the program to create the data in the first place. And I would sincerely hope that no one is advocating hiding the fact that a program may not run on a particular machine... I think word would spread pretty fast.