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From: jdm@gryphon.COM (John Mesiavech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMax
Message-ID: <20209@gryphon.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 89 05:08:41 GMT
References: <89091711024424@masnet.uucp> <354@xrtll.UUCP> <2309@vax1.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: jdm@gryphon.COM (John Mesiavech)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary:Let's not get silly now......

In article <2309@vax1.tcd.ie> trolfs@vax1.tcd.ie (Tommy) writes:
>In article <354@xrtll.UUCP>, mark@xrtll.UUCP (Mark Vange) writes:
>> 
>> I leave the question of piracy-related discussions as an excersize for the
>> reader.  If you transfer a program from a MAC disk to an AMax disk, are you
>> not pirating?  You be the judge...
>> 


No, you're not.  This comes under the heading of "backup", if nothing else.
Since you are not giving copies of the software away, you are still the
single end-user of the software and have not violated any agreements.
Otherwise, it would be illegal to put software on hard disks.


>
>    Which brings me to the questoin, don't Apple mind that their COMPUTER
>    is being pirated? 
>
>


Now THIS is silly.  In the Amax system as sold by Readysoft, there is NOTHING
with an Apple copyright in it, or anything that even imitates anything made by
Apple.  Anything that may have an Apple copyright (Apple ROMS, System software)
you buy OUTSIDE of Amax.  From Apple-registered dealers, mostly, but you 
still BUY it from somebody other than Amax.  The only real beef anyone
has about this is Readysoft, really, since the Amax box is absurdly easy 
to copy.  In fact, MAST has already done it.

Apple actually considered such a suit against Readysoft, and decided not to. 
They couldn't win it, and the HP suit had cost them too much already.

>
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John