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Re: Mac on PC
Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
> For the record, Apple has never threatened to sue us. They were very
> litiguous back when we started, so we have been SQUEAKY clean in our
> clean-room engineering from day one.
>
> Although I was annoyed by Apple's previous lawsuits of DRI and
> Microsoft/HP, we would be putting the same exacting amount of care
> into our clean room development even if Apple hadn't sued those other
> companies. The difference between ARDI and some of the other groups
> of individuals/small companies that have created Mac emulators in the
> past is that we fully plan on selling ours on a large scale. As such
> we can't be dependent on any Apple code, since it's hard to sell a
> hundred thousand or more copies of an emulator when the end user has
> to scratch up ROMs or ROM images themselves. This has made
> development slower than we'd like, but we're honored that we have
> about 3,500 customers even though Executor 2 is in pre-beta (Executor
I think you guys may have found Apple's soft spot. (Besides the place
where the bite (byte?) is!)
If you look at their MAE page, they actually have a link to your
site.... It is, of course, a far cry from an endorsement, but it shows
that they do know about you and seem to be content with what you're
doing. (They do mention that a site listed != a site endorsed -- but
IMHO being both a site listed AND a site not sued might be interpreted
that way...)
--Jared
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