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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Life...)
Subject: Re: ACOS/GBBS (was: Re: MD-BASIC (was:Re: Apple ][ BBS Software))
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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1991 18:08:39 GMT
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dzimmerman@gnh-tff.cts.com (Daniel Zimmerman) writes:
>greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) writes:
>>cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com (Conway Chen) writes:

>>>No, ACOS may not have arrays, but MACOS does.  Most people prefer to use 
>>>MACOS over ACOS, as it does have arrays, both one and two dimensional.

>>However if Lancey discovers you are running MACOS instead of ACOS, you can
>>kiss all rights to upgrades and support away.

>MACOS is just what its name says, "Modified ACOS"... If you have paid for ACOS
>and are legally running a GBBS, you can do whatever the heck you want to it,
>including modifying ACOS, since you paid for the thing... Running a board off
>MACOS when you never bought ACOS is another story, though...

However, it isn't you that modified ACOS, it was a third party
distributing the modified version.  That in itself is illegal.  Since you
are then running a knock off of ACOS, not real ACOS, I believe L&L can
refuse support for that product.  Why should he support something he never
wrote (MACOS)?

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