Re: Apple II Reference Manual ("Red Book")

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Cturley2 wrote:
> 
> Dean Jeff wrote (certainly in haste I'd think:
> 
> <<By the way, producing a product that does exactly the same thing as
> another one can be just as illegal as pirating the original product.>>
> 
> Jeff, would you like to rethink that perhaps.  The way I read it is that you
> are saying if some programmer makes another program that does exactly the same
> thing another one does - it's as illegal as pirating the original product.

Tom, he said "can", not "is". There's a difference. I once owned a
product called "The Twin" - a clone of Lotus 1-2-3. Adam Osborne had a
company that had a similar product. Osborne's company was sued
successfully by Lotus. It did not a similar thing, but the same thing as
1-2-3.

Hmmm, perhaps IBM should have sued Award and Phoniex, then they would
still have control of a market that they created.

Roy