Re: GS/OS for xgs emulator?

[Walter C Hsueh <hsuehw@ecf.toronto.edu>]

On 11 Mar 1997, Ian Schmidt wrote:
> Give me a mother f*cking break.  You are a pirate in the LAW's eyes if
> you do such a thing.  Nathan's opinion has no particular bearing on the
> matter.  You cannot distribute GS/OS unless you are an Apple dealer or
> authorized user group, and then only in the form Apple supplies it in
> (disks or .SDKs as the case may be).

Always quick to defend Nathan, eh?  I wasn't planning on distributing
GS/OS.


> Nathan's attitude isn't always the best, especially when it comes to
> emulators (which I happen to think are way cool technology), but he does 
> happen to be fully legally correct in this instance.  I know intellectual 
> property rights haven't been worth much in the Apple II world lately, but
> let's try and keep things somewhat under control.  (No, Asimov is not defined
> as 'under control' in any way, shape, or form, but let's just skirt that
> issue entirely, eh?)
> 
> Finally, it's not all that tedious to create a decked out 6.0.1 image.
> I did it myself one afternoon with a null modem cable from my (10 years old
> and still going!) IIGS.

Reread my original post, and you'll since I don't have a IIGS anymore,
it would  indeed be tedious for me to create a loaded 6.0.1 image, be
it using XGS or nulib.


Regards,

Walter