sorry for intervene; since when one needs to be popular? ...his or her statement was cold as ice, but was his/her ...personally I appreciate that on people and please don't reply, I just hope you understand my point, and it wasn't mean to argue.

 

He sort of did:

But, please nobody misunderstand my comment as taking sides, I am just offering a correction. Hearsay can run wild and it's never good when that happens.

 

Of course what he's doing is dishonorable, but...
...ask the company “ACCESS” what they think of your emulator.
Christoph Kemper probably thought to himself, we've put so much time and effort into development, and now someone comes along, repackages it and offers it for download.



Oh yes, I love your emulators.

 

It is quite likely they've heard from Mr. Kemper directly, and although I appreciate what you are saying, I wouldn't presume to know what he thinks of it.

Also very important to note is that each of these units have ceased production, in some cases for a very long time. That offers at least some nuance to the matter.

Nonetheless, there is indeed an interesting ethical question here - one which I am sure has been discussed within FOSS & GNU circles extensively for decades. Not to mention the warez scene, where honour (*cough* among thieves *cough*) is a crucial tenet...

 

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They have. In fact the first thing they did was to reach out to the companies of the products they are emulating, to let them know what they are doing, see if the company wants to do some kind of collaboration and work together etc. And many of the companies, even if they declined to go into partnership for various reasons, are watching the team to make sure they aren't encouraging piracy and are staying on the legal side of things.

From what I recall, Kemper was not exactly keen about them doing it, but did not expressly ask them to stop. However, should TUS have gone commercial and tried to make money from these emulators, that changes the stakes somewhat and it's very likely companies have much stronger grounds to go after them and shut them down. This is a big reason why they don't monetise commercially from their work.

 

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most of them had beef with him, and he does not see them as a team, he sees them as his employees.

i can also make a website where i claim that the japanese emperor is my wife, but that does not make the story true.