>Rhetorical Question? If you own a PCI Mac Radeon and a PCI PC Radeon, >is it legal for you to replace the PC ROM with the Mac ROM?
My opinion ... since ATI didn't do anything to prevent it, yes. There are practical considerations, however. The PC card has only a VGA connection, whereas the Mac card has VGA, DVI and S-Video connections. However, the "raw" cards are otherwise identical, and you "could" add the DVI and S-Video connectors, and their supporting components, if you wanted to. In the Promise/UltraTek case, UltraTek made some lame-brained attempts at preventing "diversion" of the FirmTek firmware it licensed, and Promise, which made the cards for UltraTek, made some specific changes to the board to prevent such "diversion", but these countermeasures were easy to circumvent, especially if you had access to trade-secret information on the countermeasures themselves. This is where it gets sticky. If you did indeed use trade-secret information to effect the "diversion", then you have broken the law. However, if you independently "discovered" a circumvention (there are more than one), you probably cannot be prosecuted, unless you try to sell the diverted goods commercially. "I'm an engineer, not a lawyer" ... Leonard McCoy, star date 3221.67. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
