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- Psycho Bob (honge@creighton.edu) wrote:
- : > The problem is that it would be difficult to market such a product when all
- : > of your time would be spent in court. Apple would take you apart and
- : > rightly so because such a product would be illegal without a license from
- : > Apple.
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- : How about doing it like some companies have done on the Amiga -- Ardi
- : would build everything and sell the pack -- without the ROMS. The user
- : (end consumer, buyer, etc.) has somehow get the Apple ROMS.
-
- : It should give less headache on the compatibility issue.
-
- You miss the point. It has nothing to do with legally owning the ROMS. The
- problem is that the product would be a "derivative work" based on material
- that is copyrighted by Apple. The fact that a user would be required to use
- the Apple ROMS would would make it an open and shut case.
-
- 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.
-
- Believe me, ARDI knows what it is doing.
-
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- Brian E.W. Wood
- beww@intac.com
- "Would you put your money in a bank which used Windows '95 to manage accounts?"
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