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- Vladimir Mazek <dev@gate.net> writes:
-
- > I believe Cliff wrote about this before, but I still don't get it
- > completely. I don't understand why ardi is doing everything from the
- > ground up (reinventing the wheel)?
-
- Because it's the only way to do it without paying large sums of $$ to
- Apple for the ROMs and other software. Not to mention the fact that
- Apple may not be willing to support such a venture.
-
- > I know that apple would sue you if you took the code completely, but
- > aren't you even allowed to take "snippets" of code and modify them to
- > run on the IBM compatibles.
-
- It all depends on the copyright holder for the code in question, in
- this case Apple.
-
- > Would they have any way of figuring out what you did?
-
- Not the point. Illicitly grabbing Apple code without giving them
- compensation is unethical at least, and probably also illegal.
-
- And yes, I suspect such could be fairly easy checked for.
-
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