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From: dzimmerman@gnh-tff.cts.com (Daniel Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ACOS/GBBS (was: Re: MD-BASIC (was: Re: Apple ][ BBS Software))
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.041609.25607@crash.cts.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 04:16:09 GMT
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> From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Life...)
> 
> 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)?
> 
> >Daniel M. Zimmerman             InterNet - dzimmerman@gnh-tff.cts.com
> >  TFF Enterprises       America Online - Surak TFF    CompuServe -
> 76407,2246 
> --
> ///   ____   \\\ "The major problem--one of the major problems, for there are
> | |/ /    \ \| |       several--one of the many major problems with governing
>  \\_|\____/|_//            people is of whom you get to do it, or more to the
> greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu    point, who gets people to let them do it to
> them." 

I didn't say he should support MACOS... I DID say that he can't refuse you
support of ACOS if you wish to upgrade it, if you own a legally obtained copy.
Just because you bought ACOS and are registered with Lance doesn't mean you
have to RUN it, but you are still entitled to support... 

Besides, it doesn't say anywhere in the GBBS manual that modifying ACOS is
illegal. As long as one owns a legal copy, one is entitled to support (unless
you copy it for others)..
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  TFF Enterprises       America Online - Surak TFF    CompuServe - 76407,2246
 
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