Copyright Status Of Mame And Drmd?

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I can see where you're coming from and there's a coinceidence verging on spooky but I promise you, not me on ebay.

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Fair enough. BTW, I notice that some muppet did actually fork out over a fiver for the illegal distribution.

Anyway, I'm just annoyed that someone's advertising that it's so hard to set these emulators and so on up, yet I'll wager what took them the most time during their "two days" setup was getting the stuff we aren't allowed to distribute (kickstart ROM, TOS ROM, games).

I don't think it's morally ok to exploit the hard work of others, who provided that work freely to the community, whilst simultaneously making it seem like it's hard work to use the free software. It's not.

I'm away for a while, but when I come back I have a plan to produce something that'll make it much easier to get things right (a simple package management system, basically). I might even have chilled out a bit.