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[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Jeff Blakeney writes ...
> 
> On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 12:42:34 -0600, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
> wrote:
 ....
> 
> I don't know about you but none of the software I use in the emulators
> I have installed came from any illegal source,

     Good.


> including my ROMs.  I
> have both ROM 01 and ROM 3 machines and I made my own ROM images from
> my machines

     Naughty, naughty! ROMs are for GS.

     Apple, Inc has, as far as I know, made no official public declaration that
its IIgs ROM code is public domain which may now be freely transferred to other
machines. Applying the same standard you use for Asimov, moving the ROM code is
"theft" and is "illegal".


> and the software I use is almost entirely made up of my
> real IIgs' hard drive partitions.
 ....

     All of those "Read Before Opening" envelopes with the diskettes inside had
clearly printed use license restrictions which "By opening this envelope" you
agreed to. (Sometimes, the restrictions were printed on an "Important! Read
This First!", etc. card.)  These restrictions usually limit use of the software
to the computer for which it was released.

     According to the standard you apply to Asimov, your real IIgs hard drive
partitions is where the software "legally" belongs-- _not_ some weird
non-Apple2 machine running a "pirate" emulator.

     In fact, if you have modified a piece of old IIgs software to run on a ROM
3 IIgs or converted any diskette software to run on hard disk it is a near
certainty that you have (as you would say) "illegally" violated the use
restrictions to which you agreed.


     The point should be clear: it is impossible to use any computer, let alone
an emulator, without taking a few common sense liberties.




Rubywand