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From: chou@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Chih-Hsiang Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Clones
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Date: 14 Feb 90 21:25:59 GMT
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In article <75686@tiger.oxy.edu> go@oxy.edu (Paul Jonathan Estalilla Go) writes:
>Why hasn't anybody come up with a Macintosh clone yet? Is it because of the
>copyrights Apple owns? I think not. Maybe it's because our friends in the
>Pacific don't think it's financially worth it - who in Asia would buy a
>Macintosh over a PeeCee anyway, when the software base (all pirated soft-
>ware, of course) is in MS-DOS. I've never known Taiwanese to be afraid of
>copyright laws - they can find a way around it.

	Well, this is no longer true. Things have changed a lot in recent
years. To quote from last week's (Feb. 6) MacWEEK BusinessWatch column
(p. 75), it says:

"The common perception when it comes to software is that [Far East countries]
are a den of thieves and pirates. That's simply not true", said William Peter
Knight, Apple Senior counsel for Asia Pacific Operations, at a
company-sponsored seminar here (Cupertino, CA) last month.

	To update your misconception about copyright in Far East countries,
you should write to Apple and ask for their 36-page document titled

	"Myths & Realities of Copyright in the Asia Pacific Region"

-- 
Chih-Hsiang Chou	chou@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
Department of Computer Science
University of Minnesota