[Coco] Re: Any reason to put a 6309 in a Coco2?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 11:34, Torsten Dittel wrote:
>> Yes, a very good reason, they are copyright MicroSoft.  You must
>> physically own the roms in question to legally make a file type
>> backup copy of them.
>
>My 0.02€: Brad isn't distributing the ROM files with Mocha. He's
> just inviting someone to play on *his* CoCo. Assuming he still owns
> one. If not: just imagine, the ROMs are mine (I own some of them
> ;-)). And I think as they are mine I can store them where I want
> (even on Brad's server embedded in his java applet)...
>
>Regards,
>Torsten

I'd say that this was treading on some tissue paper thin ice.  AFAIK, 
the copies also have to remain in your physical posession.

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