🚀 go-pugleaf

Being that I've seen the original message and all the followup to it, I'd like
to put my two cents worth of opinion into this fracas:

1) the original message was showing the poster's laziness. Since he "owns" a
COCO2 with the ROMS, it seems that he's a "closet" COCO owner and didn't want
to take the time to pull the wonderful machine out of it's resting place and
extract the info needed to run the emulator. Obviously, he's now a MSDOS
convert (not that there's anything "wrong" 8-) with being one!) and wanted
to run the emulator for nostalgia reasons (or whatever).

2) From the contents of the messages, I gather that people fall into one of
3 catagories, Freedom fighters, Letter of the LAW advocates, and Spirit of the
LAW believers. 8-)

SOAPBOX TIME:

    In catagory #1, you'll find pirates and misguided individuals.
    In catagory #2, you'll find lawyers and politicians (and some judges)
    In catagory #3, you'll find the rest of us (and the better judges!)

  For those of you who believe that it's ok to pirate software, try sitting in
the programmer's seat for once and think about watching your creation
propagating like crazy and no $$$ to show for your efforts. There are folks
who's sole income is from their programming creations! How would you like it
if someone walked up to you and took your money and said "thanks for the
efforts"? Don't like it? Well, that's what piracy is doing!
  As it was pointed out, copyright doesn't mean you can't copy, it means
that you OBTAIN PERMISSION BEFORE copying. Has anyone bothered to ask TANDY
for permission to copy/distribute the ROMS???? You might get a pleasant
surprise if you bother to ASK!!!

END 8-)
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Thomas Kocourek  KD4CIK             :UUCP on an OS9 system,
UUCP: dragon!westgac3!tomk          :Multitasking & windows in
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