Date   : Tue, 05 Mar 1996 12:34:14 +0100
From   : Robert Schmidt <robert@...>
Subject: Re: BBC: Radical rethinks! :-)

>The situation is not as clear as you imagine. Suffice to say that all this
>was gone through over a year ago, with the eventual decision (from much
higher
>up within Acorn), that we _couldn't_ (not _wouldn't_) release the ROMs.

Granted, I personally have some catching up to do on the status of matters
surrounding the BBC.  Before January this year, I haven't touched a BBC for,
what, 7 years?  (They were not the commonest thing in Norway.)

I'll be looking forward to the definitive reason - and the reasoning behind
it. :)

>To be honest, the BBC is _not_ dead, with or without 'you'. Also, I am not
>subscribed to the list just to 'eavesdrop into your illegal doings'. I am
>subscribed through personal interest in the BBC. Initially, I intended to
>write a RISC OS emulator, but given the situation on the ROMs (and the fact
>that I work for Acorn), and the excellent emulator written by Mike Borcherds,
>this fell by the wayside. My interest is still there however, and so I feel
>that I am quite legitimately subscribed to the list.

Sorry, I didn't mean to attack your person - but you did post 3 quite
similar mails to the list.  I got the point quite early and was carried
away... ;)

So what does Acorn think of Mike's *commercial* emulator anyway?  You
mentioned that even using the ROM images in an emulator is illegal, even if
you own the hardware.  Not that I really care.  I'll respect Acorn's posture
on my distributing ROMs, but I won't stop using them.  (I'll deny having
written this in court ;-)


robert


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