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- From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.misc
- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Date: 6 Jan 93 07:14:55 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- The most onerous part of the MacApp licence agreement is that Apple
- reserves the right to say "your MacApp program is not compatible,
- fix it with such and such a period or take it off the market" as
- part of the agreement. (This is my wording and interpretation, okay?)
-
- In theory this means that Apple could hurt a developer that relied
- on MacApp very badly (and then get sued for acting in bad faith, etc.)
-
- As for the good old "you may not reverse engineer this" clause, it's
- a crock. Most software engineers will reverse engineer stuff in their
- head as soon as they see it run. And in any case, Borland, Symantec,
- and just about everyone else don't have to reverse engineer MacApp.
- They can pay Apple for a copy of the source and then rip it off to
- their heart's content -- which is exactly what they appear to have
- done.
-
- Tonio Loewald
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- Tonio Loewald | tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au | Life is short. Be nice.
- "You can lie/You can cry/For all the good it'll do you, you can
- die/But when it's done/And the police come/And they lay you down
- for dead/Just remember what I said" (Paul Simon-not the senator)
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