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Re: Can Quix save Apple?
>On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Simon Tooke wrote:
>
>> What if you just emulated the raw Mac (ROMS only) and asked users
>> to go buy System 7.5 themselves?
>>
Aside from the problems just mentioned, there could be arguments
(correct me if I am wrong here) about contributory infringement by ARDI
even if the cloned ROMS were perfectly clean. If I produce a product
which has no significant non-infringing use, even if legal, I can be
sued.
Since you cannot just go and buy System 7.5, there is a problem. The
Systems for sale on the shelves at CompUSA are UPGRADES. If there
isn't a legal way to get the original system, any purchased copies
would seem be purchased in violation of the license agreement for the
software in the first instance. It seems that this might present some
problems. I might be wrong on this point, but that is what it seems to
me. This, however, assumes the legality of shrink-wrap licenses, and
this is obviously a debatable point.
Stu
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