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From: lawdm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dan Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX
Keywords: AMAX Apple Roms
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Date: 9 Feb 90 16:40:53 GMT
References: <8244@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: lawdm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dan Lawrence)
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In article <8244@shlump.nac.dec.com>, owen@euclid.enet.dec.com (Steve Owen) writes:
> [...] It really makes you wonder who the real pirates are, huh?  If these
> roms don't need to be bought, but just loaded into the amiga via software,
> then why the hell did the make us buy them?  

> I heard about this 'crack' a while ago (shortly after Amax emerged) and was
> really furious that they would make us buy the hardware when it really seemed
> like a fairly easy thing to do for the makers of Amax.

	I find it hard to believe these people don't understand what is
at issue here.  Picture this, suppose they had made an emulator with no
hardware and with the Apple ROM images on disk.  They sell it for a
while, Apple gears up their legal staff and sues the Amax makers for
every penny they got.

	The AMAX people are not trying to screw you by making you buy
uneeded hardware, this was the only legitimate way they could make a
product without infringing on Apple's copyrights.  The people to
complain about here is actually Apple itself for its closed OS and
relecutance to allow clone manifacturing.  (And they do suffer for this,
anyone look at IBM stock lately?)

	But certainly, the folks making the AMAX should not be flamed
for trying to keep from being sued.

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