That's a poor analogy. It's an understandable mistake to make if you're not familiar with emulator development, but (most) emulators do not rely on stolen sourc

That's a poor analogy. It's an understandable mistake to make if you're not familiar with emulator development, but (most) emulators do not rely on stolen source code or other stolen proprietary secrets. They reverse engineer these secrets instead, which is completely legal (and, imo, morally and ethically valid.) I don't know what Stallman's view on video game emulators is, but I'd expect he'd be opposed to them, like how I'd expect he'd be opposed to the original game consoles because they enable the use of proprietary software, since almost all commercial video games are proprietary. However, Stallman is normally in favour of reverse engineering proprietary systems to allow interoperability with free systems, even when that runs the risk of enabling piracy: just see DeCSS/libdvdcss.