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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Some observations
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Date: 31 Oct 90 20:45:19 GMT
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Reply-To: pthirose@ucdavis.edu (Paul Hirose)
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In article <71@generic.UUCP> sysadmin@pnet91.cts.com (Matthew Montano) writes:
>alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER) writes:
>>Laser gave up on trying to clone the GS.  I think it's in the latest
>>_A2-Central_ (if it isn't there, try the past few issues of _Nibble_;
>>I don't recall offhand where I saw the article).
>
>No they didn't. A recent talk with Laser/V-Tech Canada's national sales
>manager revealed that the only thing stopping them from selling it is the
>potential legal ramifications. (They did use the ROM's after all). It exists,
>it works, it's possible.. But it won't happen... until Apple decides to "let
>it go"..
>
>But Apple doesn't know WHAT to do with the IIgs, so I guess all we can do is
>watch the possibilities waste away?

With all this talk of letter-writing campaigns to Apple...maybe we ought 
to try and reverse the tactic.  Rather than writing letters saying "Hurry
up and support the GS and make wondrful things for it" say "Hurry up, and
give up the GS, and just license out the ROMS tos omeone else, so you
can do what you want - support Macs".

It seems licensing ROMs would be a good idea.  Apple would get money
since they would charge companies to buy the license.  Then probably
also charge money for every unit the company sells.  They'd get a lot
of satisfied people since Apple did what everyone wanted - ie: help
support the II (even if it's not APple inc directly...teh end result 
is the same).  

Last...how did Laser get around the non-GS ROM licensing problem?
Is the GS ROM so much incredibly more difficult to do than a IIe
ROM?  


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