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From: cython@ais.org (Tim Devlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: MAC System 7.0
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Date: 27 May 91 18:02:24 GMT
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In article <17202@chopin.udel.edu> don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>
>     What everyone seems to be overlooking in this discussion is that the
>system 7.0 license agreement specifically forbids running it on an 
>emulator!  It will be _illegal_ for emulator-makers to promote products as
>7.0 compatible, and it will be illegal to run it even if they are.
>This will likely cause problems for not just ReadySoft and the makers of the
>ST-based Mac emulators, but also for Nutek with its Mac ROM clones...
>
While that may be true, Apple will be hard pressed to make that part of their
license agreement hold up in court.  It's the same thing as if Sony came out
with a license agreement for the music on their new CD's that said, these
CD's can only be played on a Sony CD player.  The courts are NOT going to go
for that!  Atari tried somethin like that back in the late 70's with their
2600 game player, they tried to say that THEY were the only ones that could
make software to run on THEIR game machine, so they sued Activision....they
lost!

Tim

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