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- From: stufried@ix.netcom.com (Stuart Friedman )
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Subject: Re: Apple Roms
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 18:06:13 GMT
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- >This is similar to the problems with the early PC clone BIOS chips,
- >which were created by reverse engineering the IBM ROMS. Clones only
- >became legal when "non-infringing" BIOS, based on clean-room
- >development, became available.
-
- The samething happened with the ROMless Apple ][ and //e clones when
- they were released. Apple shut them down. Only when a legal clone of
- the ROM came on the market could Apple get away with it.
-
- The fact that somebody else has done something doesn't make it
- necessarily legal. Not all infringers are prosecuted. For instance,
- Apple has historically tolerated homemade clones and not gone after the
- hobbyists who did so. There is too much bad PR associated with it.
- Look how bad Disney hurt its image going after daycare centers which
- had Disney characters painted on the walls without Disney's permission.
- Warner Bros. scored a PR coup by going around whitewashing the walls
-