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Re: Relating to my recent discussions with Steve Wozniak.
- Subject: Re: Relating to my recent discussions with Steve Wozniak.
- From: BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:43:35 -0700 (PDT)
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On Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:06:37 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
> On 4/28/2012 9:48 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> > On 04/27/2012 10:56 PM, Kyle Lund wrote:
> >
> >> I'm about to make a Apple //e replica on a FPGA. I contacted Wozniak
> >> regarding certain source code needed to make it functional, and he
> >> said he
> >> would happily give me any rights he owned, but the majority it was
> >> owned by
> >> Apple. Can any of you point me in the direction of clearing the neccesary
> >> code rights.
> >
> > Good luck with that one! About 25 years ago I tried to get permission
> > from Microsoft simply to redistribute an (even at that time) ancient
> > version of the M80 assembler. Couldn't even get a returned phone call,
> > much less an answer.
> >
> > My sense is that costs companies the size of Apple more time and expense
> > to give you a response than to ignore you.
>
> This topic has come up before more than once; just google the newsgroup.
> I can save you some time, unfortunately... the answer is a polite
> "no." Your only options are to drop it or to be a pirate.
Yarrrrrrr!
-B