Xref: utzoo news.misc:3234 news.sysadmin:2506 comp.sys.mac:33663 comp.sys.mac.programmer:7068 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu!gaynor From: gaynor@armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Vampire) Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code Message-ID: <52377@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 19 Jun 89 22:49:27 GMT References: <2073@astroatc.UUCP> <2928@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <841@hydra.gatech.EDU> <394@v7fs1.UUCP> <736@rwing.UUCP> <1989Jun19.175611.1956@utzoo.uucp> <1309@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Vampire Followup-To: news.misc Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 25 In article <1309@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Carl M. Kadie) writes: >My understanding >is that one reason Macs are (were) so hard to clone is that no one but >Apple knows (knew) the full specification of the Mac ROM. Last month >this specification was a trade secret. Today? They full set of the Mac ROMs, the complete and unexpurgated dirty little pieces of source code, are still secrets. For those of you who have forgotten, and many of you in this flame-ridden conversation seem to have, nuPrometheus only distributed the 32-bit QuickDraw code. Not the "good" stuff. Just fluff. The "real" thing is still locked away in it's legal vaults, guarded by many a rapid Apple lawyer. It seems that nuPrometheus forgot something when they named themselves. In their urgence to bring "fire" to the masses, they forgot the price that Prometheus paid - chained to rock for all of eternity, his liver devoured by carrion birds each day, only to have it heal and grow again by the next dawn... -=- | Jim Gaynor..."The Vampire Lestat" UseNet: gaynor@cis.ohio-state.edu | | The Ohio State University - Instructional and Research Computer Center | >> "It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism << >> while wolves remain of a different opinion." - William Ralph Inge <<