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Re: A2 Trade/Swap ... site ...
In article <8k17qa$dqc$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, <bobryan9@my-deja.com> wrote:
> Apple Computer Inc. did not supply you with the ROM code on disk.
Not true! All Apple II+ ROM code was included on the BASICS disk
which was included in the Apple Pascal system. When booting the
BASICS disk, it checked which language was the ROM language (Integer
or Applesoft) and then loaded the other language in the Language Card.
> I'm sure there is a law somewhere that says you can't transfer it
> (ROM) to a different medium.
I'm quite positive that the copyright laws for software are quite
independent on the medium in which the software is stored (disk,
CD-ROM, ROM, PROM, EPROM, E2PROM, flash memory, whatever...)
> I'd like to point out that there is no such thing as "grey-area".
You're wrong -- in any legal system there are lots of grey areas.
That's why laws are modified all the time: to try to remove those
grey areas which are there because the situation wasn't anticipated
when the law was written. And that's also why there is a Supreme
Court: to guide the lower-level courts in how the law is to be
interpreted in various specific situations.
>> As to the copying of the Apple II's hardware design, the emulator
>> authors are using the publically available knowledge about how the
>> Apple II works to write their emulator. As far as I know, they are
>> not reverse engineering or doing anything else that could be
>> considered illegal in creating their emulation software.
>
> Perhaps. But if they use the ROM image, I find it highly unlikely.
Then what about using disk images to boot DOS 3.3 ? Isn't that just
as illegal, unless you once did buy the original DOS 3.3 disks?
And why aren't Apple Computer suing? As long as they don't, it
makes no practical difference whether it's legal or not.
So instead of whining here about this, why don't you instead just report
it to Apple Computer? Don't you think that would be a more efficient
way to stop these criminal activities? No?
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