Not going to quote you directly, DaRayu, or pick apart your words and selectively take what you said out of context because you do enough of that already with the replies of everyone else to fit your interpretation of THREE WORDS in a document.
Simple facts: The term "nice side effect" was added to MAME documents (readme.txt file) as part of the license agreement/goals. Download MAME 0.27 for yourself to see:
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Legal Issues
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1) The main purpose of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated Arcade Machines. This is done for educational purposes and to preserve many historical games from the oblivion they would sink into when the hardware they run on will stop working. Of course to preserve the games you must also be able to actually play them; you can see that as a nice side effect.
That is the original wording. The original intent was to say, yes, as a result of our documentation and preservation, you also must be able to play the games. It is not MAME's fault that the phrase has been twisted or reworded in a way that causes people to think otherwise. There is no official place for MAME other than MAMEDEV.org. There are also no official Windows MAME forums, no official Facebook groups, Twitter handles, Instagram pages either. Even wikipedia is not under direct control - so if you read stuff related to MAME elsewhere, you may be misinformed. And, before you say it, this forum (mameworld.info) is just a fan site for MAME and emulation where it just happens that some MAME Devs happen to also be a part of the userbase. It is in no way "official".
This discussion has gone on long enough, sadly, and there is no point in continually nitpicking intent vs. interpretation. I can only suggest that you please try to enjoy this project for what it is, not for what you personally wish it to become.
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