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Google Yanks Several Emulators From App Store
PC Magazine reports that the "-oid" family of emulators from developer Yong Zhang (better known as yongzh) has been pulled from Google's Android Market. These include Nesoid, Snesoid, and Gameboid. From the article: "So what got Zhang the boot? Or, rather, who? Neither Zhang nor Google have commented on the primary source of the complaints against the developer's emulator apps. While most speculate that one of the Big Three are behind the purge–Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft–there's also speculation that Zhang allegedly violated the open source licenses for projects that parts of his programs were derived from." A piece at Android Police has further mention and some more background on the legal position of emulator software.
The position is that 1.) emulators are LEGAL, and 2.) by definition they are based on someone else's work. His certainly aren't the first, and the won't be the last. You need to take a nice long shit to expel whatever climbed up your ass and died.
Now if there's a GPL licensing issue that's something of another story. But that has nothing to do with your retarded imbecilic tirade.