Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Toaster on a Mac (Re: IAC) Message-ID: <1991Jun25.075911.635@ncsu.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 07:59:11 GMT Article-I.D.: ncsu.1991Jun25.075911.635 References: <463@netxcom.netx.com$ <13298@uwm.edu> <4185@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1991Jun25.044521.592@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 19 > Personally, it really irks me that the Toaster will >be marketed (possibly for the Mac) using Amiga innards, >with the Amiga getting no credit. Is it legal to construct >a commercial product (i.e. a stand-alone Toaster) using >another company's (Commodore's) designs? Sure. "Parts is parts" :-) There are cash registers which use PCs as guts, kiosks with Amigas, and tons of gizmos which use either CoCo or C64 boards. None of them power up and say "Hey I'm really a XX machine in here!" :-) And often these things are built using cutdown systems bought directly from the computer maker, which I believe someone said is also the case for the Mac/Toaster unit. >It seems like some kind of licensing infringement to me. I suppose if you put your own label on the computer and sold it as a computer, you might... ummm.. actually that's probably okay too. Any lawyers around here, btw? cheers - kev