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From: pete@i-core.UUCP (Pete)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMax
Message-ID: <1989Sep25.203150.16145@i-core.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 89 20:31:50 GMT
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>> 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...
>>
>
>    Which brings me to the questoin, don't Apple mind that their COMPUTER
>    is being pirated?
 
Technically, there is nothing Apple can do, since A-Max requires the use of
original Mac ROMs.  That is, you must go and take some ROMs out of a Macintosh
and place them in the A-Max hardware.  A portable Mac is using the same
technique with a cable back to the original Mac, so you can take your Mac with
you, then come home and still use the one you've got.  Apple's only legal
defense is on the ROMs.  However, they probably do take offense to a program
called MacROM that is circulating that allows you to bypass this requirement
(of course, YOU'VE still got to get an original set of ROMs to read in the
disk file, anything else is illegal).  Which brings me to the question, if you
didn't realize it needed original Mac ROMs, then what are you using? :-)
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