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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh ROM Sources
Keywords: Macintosh, ROM, sources, nuPrometheus
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Date: 14 Jun 89 17:02:08 GMT
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In article <11894@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> samalone@athena.mit.edu (Stuart A. Malone) writes:
>Regardless of the outcome of the Apple/Microsoft lawsuit, the Macintosh ROM
>sources ARE protected by U.S. copyright laws.  Any company or group attemping
>to use these sources in a non-Apple product would be defenseless in court, and
>would end up paying huge fines to Apple.  Thus the nuPrometheus League's
>intention "to distribute everything that prevents other manufacturers from
>creating legal copies of the Macintosh" is simply a delusion.

In other words, the nuPrometheus League is probably actually an Apple ploy
to try to get potential Mac clone makers to "contaminate" themselves so
that they can be more easily sued.  And to expose themselves in public
(by posting ads) so that they can be tracked down and restrained.

Of course, there are countries in which such considerations are more
or less meaningless, so we may at least see Mac clones in some parts
of the world from this.

>I hope that next week they still have their jobs.

Why?  So they can keep up the "good" work?

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@sun.com