Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!cunyvm!ndsuvm1!ndsuvax!nubartho
From: nubartho@ndsuvax.UUCP (Bruce Bartholomew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Rom Copyrights
Message-ID: <2596@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 89 15:32:54 GMT
Reply-To: nubartho@ndsuvax.UUCP (Bruce Bartholomew)
Organization: Moo University, Fargo, ND
Lines: 22



I am curious as too get involved with this discussion of rom copyrights and
whether an owner can copy the rom code fro archival purposes.

  I am really curious as to how one could justify copying the ][+ roms
when they appear to be of a non-standard layout.  I remeber attempting
some permanent changes to the rom set (using eroms) and coujld never get
the ][+ to read the code that I had installed  on them.

Now either I was doing something wrong (which was unlikely) or the ROMs were
of a propietary nature.  I think this is a viable solution to deter people
from making backups.

Any commentson this?  I'd especially like to hear from Apple Computer
on whether my expereimentation with EPROMS was right......


--
Bruce Bartholomew  715 South 4th Street Moorhead, MN 56560  218-233-2534
INTERNET: nubartho@plains.nodak.edu *or* nu034421@vm1.nodak.edu
UUCP: uunet!ndsuvax!nubartho     BITNET: nu034421@ndsuvm1
      "Some days are diamonds, some days are stones" - Charley Johnson

#! rnews