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Re: Can Quix save Apple?



No, you can go out and just buy System 7.5.

Cameron Esfahani
dirty@apple.com

In article <4emq40$3t6@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>, stufried@ix.netcom.com
(Stuart Friedman ) wrote:

> >On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Simon Tooke wrote:
> >
> >> What if you just emulated the raw Mac (ROMS only) and asked users
> >> to go buy System 7.5 themselves?
> >> 
> Aside from the problems just mentioned, there could be arguments
> (correct me if I am wrong here) about contributory infringement by ARDI
> even if the cloned ROMS were perfectly clean.  If I produce a product
> which has no significant non-infringing use, even if legal, I can be
> sued.
> 
> Since you cannot just go and buy System 7.5, there is a problem.  The
> Systems for sale on the shelves at CompUSA are UPGRADES.  If there
> isn't a legal way to get the original system, any purchased copies
> would seem be purchased in violation of the license agreement for the
> software in the first instance.  It seems that this might present some
> problems.  I might be wrong on this point, but that is what it seems to
> me.  This, however, assumes the legality of shrink-wrap licenses, and
> this is obviously a debatable point.
> 
> Stu


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