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From: Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:25:45 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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In article <3A790033.A5671C33@qwest.net>, olcott <olcott@qwest.net> 
wrote:

> IBM published their BIOS source code...
> I am new to apples, thus they could have
> done the same... 

If IBM publishes their BIOS, it was after a company reverse engineered
it and won the lawsuit from IBM that tried to stop them.  IBM fought
cloning in the beginning and later realized they could do nothing about
it.

Greg B.
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