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Article #41653Re: Mac Plus ROM Upgrade -- Does it REALLY work? (Long)
From: Jeff Baum
Date: Mon, 01 May 1989 03:30
Date: Mon, 01 May 1989 03:30
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In article <182@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall) writes: >In article <313@wcc.oz> tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans) writes: >>Oh yes, Apple have good reasons to be paranoid about the ROMs - MacClone? > >Insisting that obsolete ROMS are returned gives Apple absolutely no >protection. It is extremely simple to clone ROMs. Yes, but it is also very illegal to clone ROMs. Apple has patents on specific code in their ROMs. Therefore, anybody who copies their ROMs is infringing on their patent. If a clone maker wants to make a clone, they have to write all of their own code to duplicate the Mac Toolbox (no easy task.) However, if clone makers can get a hold of actual Apple ROMs, then there is nothing that Apple can do to stop them from distributing the clones. So, as Apple sees it, the fewer ROMs out there, the fewer the number of clones that can be distributed legally. Jeff Baum cs132087@cs.brown.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!brunix!cs132087 From: cs132087@brunix (Jeff Baum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac Plus ROM Upgrade -- Does it REALLY work? (Long) Message-ID: <5307@brunix.UUCP> Date: 1 May 89 03:30:04 GMT References: <940@tasis.utas.oz> <313@wcc.oz> <182@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: cs132087@cslab5b.UUCP (Jeff Baum) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 21