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From: rrd@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mac 128K ROMs ---> questions
Message-ID: <7340058@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 91 17:58:42 GMT
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> ...  This prompts me to ask two questions which I've been curious
> about for a while:

> 1.) Why doesn't litigation-happy Apple sic their lawyers on Gadgets by Small?

Old news.  They tried that once already.  GBS had a little trick they pulled
(perfectly legal, of course) that shut up Apple and their lawyers very
quickly.

> 2.) Why doesn't anyone talk about how easy it is to duplicate a set of Mac
>   ROMs instead of forking out the cash for an official set?  All you need
>   do is borrow a friend's ROMs and an EPROM (or EEROM) burner...

Also old news.  Of course it's easy.  It's also easy to grow marijuana at home,
or make pipe bombs in your basement.  But I doubt you'll find anyone talking
about it in a public forum like this.  That wouldn't be too smart.

--------
Ray
(My 128K ROMs were made by Apple, I don't grow or smoke pot, and I don't even
WANT to know how to make pipe bombs.)