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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX
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Date: 8 Feb 90 23:14:52 GMT
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In <8244@shlump.nac.dec.com>, owen@euclid.enet.dec.com (Steve Owen) writes:
>Yea, 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 don't think there's much question about who the real pirates are.

The Amax folks, if they had supplied their package with the ROM contents on
disk, or provided a way to easily put them on disk, would have been in court
faster than you could say 'Wozniak', and without much chance of winning the
battle with Apple.

Supplying the hardware, and forcing the legitimate owners to purchase Apple
ROMs is the only way they can keep Apple from gettiung upset (Well, Apple might
even be upset, but there isn't much they can do about it, given the present
package).

-larry

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