[Coco] MAMOU bug?

[John Musbach]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Richard E. Crislip <rcrislip at neo.rr.com>wrote:

> On Sunday, February 03, 2013 12:37:42 PM Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> > >         YES, the LAW IS THE LAW!! If it is NOT enforced, it is not the
> > >
> > > law.
> >
> > Yep in this case even VCC is unlawful because it includes copyrighted
> roms
> > from tandy radio shack. The same for mame/mess roms.
> >
> > So we all delete ours emulator roms because the law is the law. The same
> > for PDF scans of rainbow magazines and all the coco books that are not
> PD.
> > So we must delete them all NOW!
> >
> > BTW: http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ is unlawful as hell.
> >
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>  Luis,
>
> Up until now I stayed out of this. Please review the archives of this and
> other CoCO mail list and you will see that this subjec has been hashed
>  over
> through and through. It ALWAYS ends with pissed off people, hurt feeling,
> and
> fewer member on the list. There are two camps on this issue, one says "The
> Law
> is the Law" and the other says "to hell wtih the law for the sake of
> preserving CoCo lacacy". They NEVER agree, they barely agree to disagree.
> So
> please lets end this right now, because Steve and the others will continue
> to
> exercise their rights and obligations to protect their code and the code of
> others. Nothing good will come from this.


If you want a example of what happens when you push this, see my saga (e.g.
http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2007-July/030937.html). It really
isn't worth trying to force people's opinion, this is a hot button topic I
would say.

-- 
Best Regards,

John Musbach