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- From: Jared Roberts <Jared@Cyberspace.com>
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- Subject: Re: Mac on PC
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:32:09 -0800
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- Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
-
- > For the record, Apple has never threatened to sue us. They were very
- > litiguous back when we started, so we have been SQUEAKY clean in our
- > clean-room engineering from day one.
- >
-
- > Although I was annoyed by Apple's previous lawsuits of DRI and
- > Microsoft/HP, we would be putting the same exacting amount of care
- > into our clean room development even if Apple hadn't sued those other
- > companies. The difference between ARDI and some of the other groups
- > of individuals/small companies that have created Mac emulators in the
- > past is that we fully plan on selling ours on a large scale. As such
- > we can't be dependent on any Apple code, since it's hard to sell a
- > hundred thousand or more copies of an emulator when the end user has
- > to scratch up ROMs or ROM images themselves. This has made
- > development slower than we'd like, but we're honored that we have
- > about 3,500 customers even though Executor 2 is in pre-beta (Executor
-
- I think you guys may have found Apple's soft spot. (Besides the place
- where the bite (byte?) is!)
-
- If you look at their MAE page, they actually have a link to your
- site.... It is, of course, a far cry from an endorsement, but it shows
- that they do know about you and seem to be content with what you're
- doing. (They do mention that a site listed != a site endorsed -- but
- IMHO being both a site listed AND a site not sued might be interpreted
- that way...)
-
- --Jared
-
-