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Oliver Margraf <om02@hdm-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> Under normal circumstances I would call this piracy - but here we have a 
> different situation - the OS isn't maintained in any way by Apple and 
> the support is more or less lousy. In this case I think copying the OS 
> for people who are really interested should be okay - would Apple go 
> bankrupt if a couple of users copy an old OS? I don't think so and agree 
> with you. ;-)

You appear to understand that it's wrong to steal software when the company is
still selling it.  You seem to believe that it somehow becomes okay to steal
software once that product is no longer being sold.

Maybe an analogy would help: If it's not okay to steal a new car off of the
dealer's lot, would it be okay to steal a used car from a user car dealer's
lot?  Would it matter whether Ford or whoever was still making that particular
model of car or whether they had discontinued that model?

[ Note that what we're discussing has nothing to do with opinion, merely
  straightforward facts and the law.  My opinions about 'abandonware' are
  actually pretty close to yours, but, unlike many people, I don't wish away
  unpleasant facts simply because they conflict with my opinions.  You don't
  somehow gain the right to take something just because you want it. ]

> So I'd like to ask if there's a tool (even for command line - I don't mind
> :-)) to make *.iso files from any devices? Then I could burn the ISO file on
> my Mac...  Oliver

There is something called mkisofs, but you would need to perform a raw copy of
the NEXTSTEP installation CDs for the copy to contain a bootable filesystem.

An ISO image wouldn't be bootable.

-Chuck

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