Re: Official and LEGAL ways to emulate Apple II?

[Jalapeno <jalapeno1@mac.com>]

In article <b98u1j$4l5$1@freenet9.carleton.ca>,
 et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote:

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> This issue is like the computer I pulled out of the garbage the other
> day.  It's got Windows ME installed.  "I"ve got the software, so I
> can run it" is a false statement.  Because I don't have the master
> copy of the software, whoever had the computer before me can run
> that software on some other computer.  Two copies of the software running
> on different computers.  The CDROM with the operating system is like
> the ROMs in the Apple II; a physical thing that can't be legally duplicated
> which does indicate ownership.

One buys a license to run the software, not the software itself. ROM 
code from the 1980's may need to be tested in court, to be sure. Apple 
may not care about a single person running ROM code in an emulator at 
their house but they may care about a school running emulators instead 
of buying Macintoshes. Schools and businesses need to excercise much 
more care with licensing, IMO, BIANAL.