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Crazy Cooter:
We just need to watch what is said so someone just stepping into the situation is clear on where the community stands.  Foley took the --missioncontrol-- approach and is now trying to back off just enough to seem like he's "ok".  He's even going so far as to change his "release letters" about his position.  We need to stand up and put him out of business before he does that to the other retailers.  If we don't, we'll be cutting our own throats.  That dude is a crook and whatever happens to his business or his employees is his fault, not ours.

Boycott Ultrcade and Arcade Legends!

"Looks like Foley has had his share of trouble from copyright holders in the past."
Foley never had permission from those guys to sell their roms or use their art on his machines & advertisements.  Sounds familiar huh?  THAT is the type of guy this is.  "boo hoo, now who can I steal from?"
He is shutting down auctions now for cabs that are capable of playing ROMs, when a few months ago, his machines came with them included.  How anyone can consider him as being legit is beyond me.

SirPoonga:
I merged the everything else thread replies with this one.  It may be a bit confusing to read through the last couple of pages.

saint:
If you have an issue with moderation, you write to me.  I don't care what your issue is or what subject you're unhappy about -- tulips, petunias, trackballs, what president is in office, the color of the sky, or the definition of the word "blue." ...  it doesn't matter.

The moderators on this private forum volunteer to assist me in running this site. This site is moderated as deemed necessary to maintain the good will and the arcade controls community oriented nature of this web site. Anything that is detrimental to that is subject to moderation. If you can not abide by that then you are at the wrong web site.

--- saint


--- Quote from: lloydcom on February 27, 2005, 04:53:23 am ---I had this in a new thread, but was stopped because "there was a thread already regarding it" so I'll repost it here.  If this gets stopped, then I know who to write to.
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lloydcom:
Did you read my previous post?

KevSteele:

--- Quote from: lloydcom on February 27, 2005, 06:42:21 pm ---None of these comments are in dispute guys.

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Almost every one of those comments is in dispute. I can only assume you're deliberately trolling now, because you're so far off the mark that even your "facts" are wrong, let alone your opinions.

It is not illegal or even against the MAME license agreement to use MAME to play games. It's been stated that the main purpose of MAME is to reproduce the games' hardware, and that being able to play the games is a happy side-effect, but that does not mean that the MAME developers are against anyone playing games via MAME.

Building hardware to play MAME games does not impact the MAME development process, nor does it hurt the MAME cause. In fact, many of the MAME hardware and cab makers are the ones who have donated the money to obtain new boards to dump. MAME has never needed "protection" from MAME hardware makers.

Where do you come up with some of this stuff?

Mr. Foley has stated a "motivation" for his actions, but he has steadfastly refused to reveal what legal right he had to appropriate the MAME logo, developed by someone else (and automatically assigned copyright protections under US law). Why not? Because he had no rights to that image.

Kevin

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