On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:16:42PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > >>I know it may be a fine point, but I'd contrast that with an emulator > >>that is free and self-sufficient, but for which there is no DFSG-free > >>software to run. > >> > >> > > > >A *lot* of old home computer emulators won't be self-sufficient without the > >ROM, because the environments were so constrained that ROM-based service > >routines were very heavily used. > > That's interesting and true. But "a lot" is not "all". I think in the > case under discussion, an OS system ROM isn't necessary to run the > software. You just need particular game ROMs. Do we expect the typical user of the emulator to already have game ROMs on hand? If so, by what means? -- G. Branden Robinson | A fundamentalist is someone who Debian GNU/Linux | hates sin more than he loves branden@debian.org | virtue. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John H. Schaar
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