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Article #40431Re: Cloning Mac ROMS
From: Howard A. Landman
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1989 20:58
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1989 20:58
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In article <433@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) writes: >I am suprised that no one from Apple has yet pointed out that the use >of Apple's ROMs in things like the MagicSack and the Spectre128 are >blatantly illegal. Not exactly. Use of *copies* *of* Apple's ROMs is blatantly illegal. There has been no decision on use of the actual ROMs from a scrap Mac. I don't think Apple *wants* to try this one in court, because a loss would hurt them deeply, but a win wouldn't buy them much. >Apple's license agreement clearly states that Apple's software is for >use in APPLE EQUIPMENT ONLY. Last time I checked my Macintosh didn't >say MagicSack or Laser128 anywhere on it... You can say anything you want. The question is, can you enforce it? Howard A. Landman landman@hanami.sun.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!hanami!landman From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Cloning Mac ROMS Message-ID: <97862@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 6 Apr 89 20:58:44 GMT References: <2782@uokmax.UUCP> <433@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 18