Re: Modern A2 successor

[Liam Busey <buseyl@my-deja.com>]

**** **** wrote:
> 
> Guys,
>     This all ignores the fact that building a successor to the Apple2
> without Apple's express consent would violate certain intellectual > property rights as explained by the Vogon and Vogon Law Firm. Such > as...

I don't think there's a single vogon (does anyone besides QC claim that
that title?) who would mind a new non-Apple Apple 2. There's nothing
illegal about cloning an Apple 2. Just don't rip off Apple's firmware or
implementation.

> 
> Reverse Engineering Protection

Wasn't this part of UCITA? This shouldn't apply unless your state passed
it. Considering how crippling such a restriction would be I doubt it'll
get anywhere.

> Corporate Domination of a Conceptual Model

Huh? You mean like IBM's domination over the PC's conceptual model
right? ;) You can't own ideas.
 
> Absolute Profit

Since when does IP guarantee this?
 
> Absolute Control

ditto
 
> Patent #1,900,678,145 - Grants exclusive right to use and sell, for a > period of 17 years, the Roman alphabetic characters A,E,I,O and
> C,D,G,H,M,N,P,R,S,T,Z. Just try and collaborate on a project without 
> using those letters.

You can't patent something like that, silly. Patents are for inventions
( I don't know how buisness processes and the like got tacked on). You
can't even trademark those individually.

 
> You see, you don't realize you're only allowed to do what make money 
> for big business. 

What's wrong with money? Are you a member of the FSF or Communist party? 

> Go buy an iMac.

No need to get nasty.


Liam Busey