Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: mac-compatible design technique Message-ID: <1964@nsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 14:56:14 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1964 Posted: Tue Dec 4 14:56:14 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 01:07:20 EST Organization: Plaid Heaven Lines: 31 References <1259@utah-gr.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Distribution: Organization: Plaid Heaven Keywords: Summary: >Is it legal to copy the Mac ROM data onto a diskette? If so, perhaps a >'leach' technique could be used by a mac-compatible machine. This is, I believe, called stealing. Last I looked, stealing wasn't legal. Two precedents-- Apple vs. Franklin Computer over the Franklin clones borrowing Apple's software (Franklin lost) and Microsoft vs. Advanced Logic Systems over ALS's CPM board for the Apple-- ALS 'borrowed' the boot proms from the Microsoft CP/M card and got caught (the programmers initials were hidden in a documented but not obvious position-- interesting proof). The mac roms are proprietary and I'm sure that they are covered by copyright, at least. Any Mac compatible that attempts to use them without licensing the technology from apple will find themselves in deep trouble, and Apple will be more than happy to jump on them (justifiably so-- the development costs in those rams are enormous). chuq -- From the center of a Plaid pentagram: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA ~But you know, monsieur, that as long as she wears the claw of the dragon upon her breast you can do nothing-- her soul belongs to me!~