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From: aries@rhi.hi.is (Reynir Hugason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac is software - why not on NeXT?
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Date: 19 Nov 90 09:31:34 GMT
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Well, I've been following this thread for a while now and to be frank I'm
having serious doubts whether this Mac2Next thing would work, with technical
issues set aside.

The two most obvious questions it raises in my head are:

   (1) Isn't the Macintosh ToolBox interface protected by copyright laws?
       To back up my point, for example the Xerox Smalltalk-80 class library
       IS protected by copyright and it makes no difference (as far as I can
       see) whether or not I actually write my own version of it's methods or
       not. I'm still copying there class-library. Am I not?

   (2) Is anybody mad enough to take on their legal department?

That's all folks...
By the way why not write a NeXT clone for the Mac FX (F*cking eXpensive) :-)

Mimir (aries@rhi.hi.is) - Aries, Inc.
/// With greetings from Sweet Mama Jankins ... and her friends.