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- No, you can go out and just buy System 7.5.
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- Cameron Esfahani
- dirty@apple.com
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- In article <4emq40$3t6@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>, stufried@ix.netcom.com
- (Stuart Friedman ) wrote:
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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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