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From: stevel@dartvax.UUCP (Steve Ligett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC ROM copying
Message-ID: <5073@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 10:12:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.5073
Posted: Tue Aug 26 10:12:05 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Aug-86 22:35:05 EDT
References: <570@watmum.UUCP> <1677@tekgvs.UUCP> <820@nicmad.UUCP>
Reply-To: stevel@dartvax.UUCP (Steve Ligett)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <820@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
>In article <1677@tekgvs.UUCP> keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes:
>>First of all - copying the ROMs from a PC-2 machine to put in the
>>PC-1 is stealing. But enough about *my* hang-ups...
>
>Are you sure about that?  How can you steal an IBM ROM to place into an
>IBM machine?!?!?!  It's their product in their machine?!?!?!

Really?  Ask Apple if it's ok to copy their new Mac roms to put in
your old Mac...

What the hell, if you buy any version of a piece of software, you
can just make your own free copies of new versions that come out, right?

-- 
Steve Ligett  stevel@dartmouth  or  stevel@dartmouth.edu  or
(astrovax cornell decvax harvard ihnp4 linus true)!dartvax!stevel

Standards eliminate variability and the requirement to make a decision;
they need not be optimal.