Re: the status of Apple system software & vogon hypocrisy

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Correct me if I am wrong, but the statute expressly refers to "a computer
program" and ROM code is a computer program, isn't it?

Frank

Waiting for the fireworks, in Baltimore . . .

Rubywand wrote in message <396249DB.F3F9D5EF@swbell.net>...
>Frank Townsend writes ...

>> But someone reading the statute might reasonably
>> conclude that copying the ROM code to use it in a computer is a
>> permissible activity.
>>
>
>     Someone could try; but, it would be a waste of time. The statute you
>mention clearly applies to software and, at that, under very limited
>circumstances.