Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: I have designed a MAC FX Message-ID: <1991Mar5.070849.5724@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 5 Mar 91 07:08:49 GMT References: <1991Mar4.181052.826@meadow.uucp> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 17 In article <1991Mar4.181052.826@meadow.uucp> py@meadow.UUCP (Peter Yeung) writes: >In article steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell) writes: >> >>The question is is it worthing paying a 68040 programmer to write a os >>system to patch apples operating roms to mine. >The answer is: you cannot afford the legal cost of fighting with Apple (except >you have a pocket as deep as Microsoft). I think Apple will be bring you to >court as soon as you plan to market your efforts. Such efforts (patching real mac ROMSs to run on different hardware) are already on the market for the Amiga and Atari ST. None of those vendors were sued, but Apple is attempting to prevent any dealer from buying roms to sell to non-Mac users. So the answer is, others have done it and weren't taken anywhere, but unless they want to sue Apple for anti-trust (which seems to have worked against IBM and DG in the past) then they're probably toast.