on 9/16/04 9:43 AM, Philip Stortz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i didn't think you were being too serious. and i agree, few companies will > release old, > abandoned stuff just because, well, they tend to be paranoid intellectual > property pack > rats. i do suspect that if you started making rom simms that were copies of > 10 year old > machines you wouldn't have any legal problems unless people started asking > apple for > support or something, which is one of the main reasons they cracked down on > sites that had > the "service" manuals, people were using them to tear their machine apart and > then calling > apple support and saying they'd done this and that as suggested in the service > manual, > what do i do next? when of course they should have realized they had no right > to expect > support from apple when they were doing things they weren't authorized to do. > it's sad > really, liability and paranoia probably paid a roll as well, but when you can > get > $2,000,000 for spilling hot coffee on your lap it's hard to say what paranoid > is, there > are a lot of morons on juries out there, and it's practically a requirement. > > Larry le Mac wrote: >> >>> From: Philip Stortz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> actually, as long as <snip> >> >> I wasn't getting on my legal high horse as such as I have >> "ripped" masses of ROMs in my emulation day. I used to >> have the alias "emul8" on all the boards with Jim Watters >> and the others, so I've been there done that... >> >> Apple have little interest in nailing people ripping old ROMs, >> but no way would they ever endorse the use or licence them. > --------
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