Re: GS/OS for xgs emulator?

["Dan Yertzell" <Dan-Yertzell@worldnet.att.net>]

MikeW50 <mikew50@aol.com> wrote in article > 
> Actually, it appears you do need a lesson on copyrights. While you may
> disagree with the tone or source of the information, Nathan's facts were
> 100% on the mark: GS/OS is copyrighted. Only sites that have a legitimate
> license from Apple can legally post it. As far as I know, Apple has never
> made GS/OS available in the format you're asking for, so in a backhanded
> sort of way, what Nathan was telling you is it isn't legally available in
> the format you asked about--and so, hopefully, it isn't available at all,
> and reasonable people would shun any place that made it available in that
> format.
> 
> It would be nice if XGS would handle the formats that _are_ legally
> available. I personally took a look at it and rejected it in favor of Gus
> without looking further for that very reason. (If Gus had serious
problems
> I might have looked harder, but for me it doesn't.)
> 
> Mike Westerfield
> 

Actually, I don't.  

Gus has the advantage of running on Macs, so it can read the goofy Apple //
disk format.  I'm running xgs on a pentium pc, which will never be able to
read apple disks.  

So many problems could have been avoided if Apple had followed the standard
for disk drives and formats, instead of going their own way.  

<sigh> . . . .

But anyways, I'm not some sort of wild-eyed, ahoy matey software pirate. 
I'm just trying to get the stuff I need to make xgs useful.  I'm trying to
get my hands on a real //gs again, and if I do, I'll make my own GS/OS hard
drive image, and upload it to asimov for all the other xgs users out there.
 If Apple has a problem with this, then maybe they could make a few bucks
by selling xgs format images on PC disks.  God knows they need all the
business they can get at this point.

OTOH, when Apple goes belly up in a couple of years, we won't have to worry
about this kind of crap anymore!    :-)

Dan