Re: Note to QC & PG

["Arkain" <rwking@no.usa.spam.net>]

I was of the impression that *ROM CODE IS SYSTEM SOFTWARE* since the system
cannot function without it. Besides, in the case of A2 computers, the rom
code has long since been placed in binary file form by Apple for the sake of
allowing selectable Integer & Applesoft Basic. Unfortunatley that doesn't
cover the 80 Column ROM, but the argument is the same since it is System ROM
as well. Does that then mean that companies like Byte Works have he right to
sell copies of the sytem ROM code or does the ROM really fall under some
other domain?

Arkain

Sandra Warnken <warnken@mother.com> wrote in message
Pine.LNX.3.96.1000724080207.750A-100000@step.mother.com">news:Pine.LNX.3.96.1000724080207.750A-100000@step.mother.com...
> I like your thinking.
>
> Since users groups like GSAUG and publishers like Joe of Shareware
Solutions II
> and Mike of Byte Works have been licensed to distribute system software
> from Apple, Inc., why can't Apple, Inc. treat the ROM codes the same way.
> Let it license emulator developers. Of course I may have missed something
> in how the ROM codes are similar or not to system software.
>
> Sandy