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Re: Relating to my recent discussions with Steve Wozniak.
On 2012-05-01 02:45:11 +0000, BLuRry said:
You gotta stop being so black & white about the issue.... otherwise it
becomes like U.S. politics.
Maybe I am the type to ride the lightening without underwear on, but in
the past 5 years neither M$ or Apple have tracked me down in my sleep
for including the //e and ][DB roms with JACE. No cease/desist. Nor
has Asimov ever gone away. Quite simply, if you're not threatening
their profit margin then they simply won't care. They'll lose money
paying a lawyer for the time spend sending nastygrams over something
that they cannot make money on in the first place.
I know we saw some insanity from Atari recently going after homebrewers
and such but really that's because Atari was bought by a company hoping
to maximize profit off of their old games catalog -- and anything
playing retro Atari games suddenly became a threat. Their lawyers were
cease-and-desist happy for a while but suddenly it became too expensive
for them to try to target everyone that put the word Atari on their
webpages. Since Apple doesn't really own any retro software of any
specific novel interest (other than collectors and vintage retro nuts
like us) it is not worth their time or energy to drum up interest in
old stuff. They're far too busy chasing after the next big thing.
If you really have a moral issue with it, then ship sans roms and
provide a very easy mechanism for people to put their (hopefully
legitimately obtained) roms in. Either way just make a decision and
stick with it. :-D I don't think anyone will hold either decision
against you. There are great reasons for going either way.
-B
It's 1998 in csa2, all over again! Woo-hoo!
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- Mike
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