Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
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Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
Here is a idea have TI form a legal list so you can argue about this all day
long... come on most of us could care less if we indeed own our calcs. Is
this really a something that should be on the list? NO!
Dave
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas J. Hruska <thruska@tir.com>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 10:06 PM
Subject: RE: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
>
>At 06:51 AM 11/16/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>The ROM image is like commercial software. As you know, it is illegal to
>>pirate/warez programs such as Microsoft Office, Windows, Photoshop, Quake,
>>etc. The same principle applies to TI ROM images. Believe it or not, TI
>>spent lots of money to programing and test the ROM so your calculator is
>>near perfect. When you buy that TI-89 for $130+, a majority of that goes
>>to buy a copy of the ROM image. That is your own, personal copy of it.
>>You can, of course, extract your ROM for backup purposes, the same as you
>>can keep a backup copy of software. However, if you want to run two
>>copies at once, you would need to purchase a second copy.
>
>This still doesn't prove that "distributing the ROM image for __programming
>research__" isn't legal. You are talking about just general use of the
>ROM. I am talking about research of various types. You also can't
>research MS Office at the programming level since it only has a specific
>set of purposes already researched. ROM images are different in this sense
>and are legal to distribute according to my previously defined reasons on
>"programming research".
>
>All I have left to say is: Prove it.
>
>>On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> At 06:28 AM 11/16/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>> >Distributing the ROM image for "programming research" doesn't make it
>>> >legal.
>>>
>>> Prove it.
>
>
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