Re: "official" FSF position on apple

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From: Matthias Neeracher
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 12:01

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In article <gapdrr.717652565@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> gapdrr@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Daniel R T Rothman) writes:
>You're really paying for the ROMs, which have the toolbox on them. everything
>else is really just icing. This is part of the reason NuTek scares apple
>silly,

If they are scared, they hide it well. NuTek has been around with their ROMs
for several years now, but I haver never seen any machines based on them 
being sold.

>they've got a "clean-development" room where they're reverse-engineering those
>ROM routines, and trying to figure out the copy protection schemes...

Copy protection schemes ? Are you sure you're talking about a Mac and not about
a TI 99/4? Mac ROMs are so heavily copy protected that it takes a 12 year old
with an EPROM burner to copy them :-)

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                   neeri@iis.ethz.ch
 "You must have picked up that copy of Scarlett instead of Inside Mac
  when you tried to find the right call..." -- Keith Rollin

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From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher)
Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
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