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Re: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:35:02 GMT
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Original-From:
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Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co!NoMoreSpam!.uk>
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Kekoa Proudfoot wrote:
> You're drifting from the point. Why IBM PCs have been cloned and why MACs
> have not been has nothing to do with license agreements. Copyrights are
> copyrights. I cannot, will not, and have not copied the firmware in any
> way that I do not consider fair use. But copyrights are not license
> agreements.
It doesn't have much to do with coprights, IMO, either - the simple
reason is that no two Macs are the same, whereas PCs have retained the
same daft architecture IBM thought of on day one (including overlapping
interrupts and exceptions which has caused me considerable personal
pain).
Cheers,
Ben.
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| (...) You're drifting from the point. Why IBM PCs have been cloned and why MACs have not been has nothing to do with license agreements. Copyrights are copyrights. I cannot, will not, and have not copied the firmware in any way that I do not (...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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