Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!crdgw1!jupiter!oplinger From: oplinger@jupiter.crd.ge.com (B. S. Oplinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple OS 7.0 - Cost? Message-ID: <4374@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 29 Dec 89 13:37:27 GMT References: <1989Dec21.210721.9191@uncecs.edu> <1345@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: oplinger@jupiter.crd.ge.com (B. S. Oplinger) Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 37 In article <1345@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> gdavis@primate.wisc.edu writes: >From article <1989Dec21.210721.9191@uncecs.edu>, by egapmh@uncecs.edu (Paul M. Hudy): > Don't want to start a flame-fest, so I tried to e-mail but our wonderful mailer says: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >>> HELO indri.primate.wisc.edu <<< 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local 554 ... Service unavailable: Bad file number So, here goes, in public even :-)! >I hesitate to call users of Mac emulators pirates, since I'm >sure most of them are fundamentally honest, but I would still >say they are stealing, even if unwittingly, Apple's >intellectual property. Sorry, but it goes like this. I may purchase anything I like. I may then do whatever I want with it, as long as it is for my use. I can legally purchase MAC OS ROMS and then use the code contained therein as a basic of an emulator. >It is important to note that the System is legally available >(according to Apple's license) only for use on Apple equipment. If I purchase something, it is mine to do with as I please. Such a 'license' is non-sense. If you look at the shrinkwrap license on the disks, you will find out that the disks contain the usual garbage about the media itself being warrented and not the programs, ad nauseum. I can purchase software and again run it on any machine I like. brian oplinger@crd.ge.com -- <#include standard.disclaimer>