Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!enwall
From: enwall@Apple.COM (Tim Enwall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh ROM Sources
Keywords: Macintosh, ROM, sources, nuPrometheus
Message-ID: <32445@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 89 15:44:45 GMT
References: <1210@tnoibbc.UUCP> <2801@wheaties.ai.mit.edu> <11894@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <109952@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <109952@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>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.
>

Judging by the reaction among the people I know here, I would HIGHLY doubt
this was a planned Apple action simply to make it harder for people to clone
the Mac.

Of course, these are my opinions only, and I don't make Apple policy, but...

Tim Enwall
enwall@apple.com