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From: consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg)
Subject: Re: MAC System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.185042.3257@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu>
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References: <1991May27.074112.13293@news.iastate.edu> <17202@chopin.udel.edu> <#6PCXP#@irie.ais.org> <1991May27.220109.1165@NCoast.ORG>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 18:50:42 GMT

In article <1991May27.220109.1165@NCoast.ORG>, davewt@NCoast.ORG (David
Wright) writes:
|>In article <#6PCXP#@irie.ais.org> cython@ais.org (Tim Devlin) writes:
|>[...] I seriously doubt that
|>people using AMax (even WITH the ROMs) actually PAID to buy the Mac OS.
|>This is exactly the same situation as someone who is using an IBM emulator
|>or clone (which has to have some kind of ROM BIOS) using a pirated copy of
|>MS-DOS. Even if Apple is too late to restrict the ROMs (there may be so many
|>out there, and of course there will always be a grey market), they can
|>certainly impose restrictions on the OS itself.

You're extrapolating too much.  You have no knowledge that all, or even
most, AMAX users pirate the system.  In the best-case scenario (which
all computer makers develop for) in which people get everything through
the legal channels, the emulator is LEGAL.

By your logic I can say that a Macintosh user who bought a used Mac with
no hard disk copies a system folder from a friend, or we can look at the
regular Mac user who illegal updates his system and finder versions from
friends or even the computer center at school.

Also, you are saying (in non-computer terms) that SONY tape players
should only be allowed to play SONY brand tapes, which is ludicrous. 
You can also see this happening with the Nintendo licensing program,
where you cannot produce a Nintendo cartridge without securing a license
from Nintendo (of course, Nintendo recently lifted this restriction).


|>
|>				Dave
|>
|>

Best,

Kris
                                       
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