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From: dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Macintosh emulator (Re: C128 emulator?)
Message-ID: <331@toylnd.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 91 08:01:06 GMT
References: <930@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <91054.231708JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <91064.212753JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
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In article <91064.212753JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>, JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
> In article <42@net23.weber.edu>, val@net23.weber.edu (Oberon Kenobi) says:
> >
> (But more importantly:)
> 2) Apple has cut off the supply of Mac ROMs.  Many folks who want
>    to do the legal thing and buy them cannot.  If a person has made
>    an honest effort to purchase them, can you truly fault that
>    person for using pirated copies of the ROMs?  Apple could have
>    made its profit if it had wanted to...  It chose not to.
> 
> ** Before you flame me, I OWN both A-Max II and a set of legal ROMs **
> 
> But I would be interested in anyone who has a rebuttal to my points above.

A rebuttal is easy.  It is completely reasonable for Apple to hold the view that
you should have to buy a Mac to run Mac software.  Because some clever software
types came up with a sneaky way to make a Mac emulator that didn't violate
Apple's copyrights doesn't mean that Apple is somehow 'wrong' in trying to stop
such emulators and certainly doesn't justify ripping the ROMs off because they
can no longer be obtained legally.  Just because you want to emulate a Mac on
your Amiga doesn't necessarily mean you have a right to do so.  The Amax folks
would get in touch with the people that have developed a compatible chip set
based on Motif and see if they can license them for resale, thereby cutting
Apple out of the loop.

David Albrecht