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- From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
- Subject: Re: EGGPLANT, IMPLANT, EMPATH, BLAZEPLANT...
- Message-ID: <6364.2b10f900@hayes.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:30:07 EDT
- References: <1992Nov11.022008.845@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1Xa7TB9w165w@bugend.edvina.se> <37070@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov17.010120.8535@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.010120.8535@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, dtiberio@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
- >
- >> 4. It requires you to illegally software-copy Mac ROMs.
- >
- > It requires you to have Mac roms, in either hardware form or software
- > form.
-
- Fair enough. Now, think about that assertion for a moment.
-
- > The law states that once you buy a software package for your computer, you
- > have the right to use it on any one computer at any time.
-
- Correct. This falls under the category of copyright fair use laws.
-
- > The same goes with your ROM.
-
- Correct. Note the extremely important term: "your". That means one that you
- own. Not one that you just borrowed for a few days, not one that you used
- to own but sold, but one that you currently own. Yours.
-
- > If you buy a Mac, you can get a copy of the ROM via software and use it
- > with AMAX or Emplant legally, so long as no two copies run at the same
- > time ie running the original Mac and the Emplant at the same time is
- > running from two copies.
-
- Correct.
-
- Now, do any of you Amiga types realise what this means?
-
- This means that the only legal way to use an Emplant to emulate a Mac is
- TO BUY A MAC IN THE FIRST PLACE!
-
- Funny, in all this endless discussion of how much it costs to put together
- a Mac-emulating Amiga platform w/ Emplant, I have yet to see anyone include
- the cost of the Macintosh required to license the ROMs.
-
- Once you include that cost, I'm sure you'll find that the existing Mac
- price is much more favorable.
-
- Any other practice would be considered theft. So, which is cheaper? To buy
- a Mac or to steal one?
-
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