Re: Gus, IIgs emulator...

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

> Anyone with Gus will be one of the following:
> 
> a) a school which applied to Dave and Andy for exclusive use.
> 
> b) a person under written non-disclosure regarding Gus.
...
Well, a couple years back, Gus made the rounds on some FTPs and Hotline, a
sort of chat/file transfer client/server kind of thing...I guess it's like
a combo of IRC and FTP, with a pretty interface and none of the really
powerful features...
So thusly, in theory, anyone could have it even if just through the
'friend of a friend' type handoffs.
But...that may very well be an earlier, buggy copy. I know it was an early
dev copy, fairly unpolished.
I tried to get a teacher friend to sign up for Gus, but she didn't want
to, and by the time I found a teacher who did want Gus, the email address
didn't respond anymore, and the webpage signup form was gone...<sigh>

> Which means he must be under non-disclosure, which means he must have
> signed a written agreement not to discuss the fact that he has a copy.
> Now, because he brags about it all the time, this means either one of two
> things, 1) he's got an illegal copy, which makes sense, him being a thief
> by nature, or 2) he's blatantly breaking the law by breaking his written
> non-disclosure.
<sigh> heh. well, I think it also may be the 'I can't have Bernie so Gus
is twice as good' situation. But dunno. The more I hear of any of this
'World vs Turley', the less I want to. I don't want to step onto a side,
so I really don't want an elaborated rant in my email, I have appreciated
a few emails clueing me in on some questions, but I don't want to open my
mailbox to see a bunch of rants or accusations this time. Turley, I don't
have a reason to have anything personally against you, but boy, you've
really got an anti-following.