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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Some observations
Message-ID: <2335@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 30 Oct 90 22:33:34 GMT
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In article <14278@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1990Oct29.203334.23768@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) writes:
>>A //gs clone would be bloody simple to make, ...
>
>Not without stealing the firmware ROM, it wouldn't.  If you doubt that,
>try coding up a substantial fraction of the toolbox yourself and you'll
>see that it isn't at all "simple".

Even if you were to start from scratch it would be pretty hard to write
code that you couldn't be sued over. One, you'd have to prove that all
of your code *is* original, and there's only so many ways of doing some
things. Two, it might not even get to the point of win or lose. I have a 
feeling that Apple could outbid you lawsuit wise in no time at all.


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