Re: Just bought an Apple II

[sloopy malibu <sloopym@home.com>]

what was probably closer to the truth was if you weren't making a profit off
of it
they 'overlooked' (users giving it to users) because you needed it to run
apples hardware and you already gave them the money for the machine and drives...

now the case with franklin was different, they got no money out of it at all, you
didn't buy their machine didn't buy their controller cards, so obviously it would
make them a little 'unhappy' ;')

sloopy
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Roy and/or Janet Miller wrote:
> 
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
> > Which means Apple said OK to everyone who asked to distribute DOS with
> > their software, and didn't care about those who didn't ask?
> >
> 
> They sued the pants off of Franklin Computer for stealing DOS 3.3 and the Apple
> ROM routines.
> 
> > Hmmm, interesting.... so legally the user was required to do a reboot
> > each time the user switched to another piece of software on the Apple II,
> > unless he had booted from the original DOS diskette?
> >
> 
> And how did you exit from BallBlazer and load Pinball Construction Set?
> 
> >
> > Did Apple have any plans on how to enforce this rule to be obeyed?  <g>
> >
> 
> See above.
> 
> Roy