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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple //e ROMS
Summary: The Legal Thing to Do.
Keywords: EPROM, Legality
Message-ID: <9404@reed.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 01:18:19 GMT
References: <8805221917.AA08595@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
Lines: 23

In Article: <8805220159.aa01554@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> POLKOSNI%QCVAX.BITNET writes:
>
>One of the reasons I got the eproms burned from a friend rather than getting
>the upgrade kit from Apple is that I heard that Apple confiscates your old
>chips when you get the upgrade.
>
> >walter<

The Correct (both morally and legally) Thing-to-Do was to burn your old
ROM's, which you own and therefore have a right to have a copy of, and then
upgrade.  This does not mean the same thing when you sell the //e, for
example.  Apple Wanted the chips back because A) THey had their logo on
them, and B) you really don't want *your* chips showing up in hong-kong
knock-offs, because then people thing you sold them the right to use them,
and thus you have a harder time sueing them for copyright infringment.

Sean Kamath

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