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Article #43337Re: Macintosh ROM Sources
From: DN5
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1989 13:34
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1989 13:34
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Following up an article about an organization distributing sources to the
Mac ROMs and System.
I think that this may actually make cloning the Mac Roms and system harder.
Since part of making a legal clone is being able to claim not to have seen
the original source code (to protect in areas where the clone accidentally
duplicated the original), this may make it harder to prove that a given
programmer hasn't seen these sources. I can't make cloning harder, but it
may make LEGAL cloning more difficult.
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind taking a glimpse of these sources myself
;-).
Jay, etc.. (D. Jay Newman)
dn5 AT psuvm.bitnet
Disclaimer:
I am NOT a lawyer, so the above (including my name) should be taken as
possiblly, perhaps even likely, incorrect.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!dn5 From: DN5@PSUVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.graphics Subject: Re: Macintosh ROM Sources Message-ID: <89160.093417DN5@PSUVM> Date: 9 Jun 89 13:34:17 GMT References: <1210@tnoibbc.UUCP> <2801@wheaties.ai.mit.edu> Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing Lines: 19