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- >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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