Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
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Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
At 03:10 PM 11/17/98 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/17/98 1:08:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, thruska@tir.com
>writes:
>
>> Paranoid I am not. Cautious I am. TI is just waiting for ticalc,
>> ti-files, or dimension-ti to mess up. The second that such an error is
>> made, TI will begin the legal process. TI would love to shut down every
>> last major site and if we can defend our position and win, TI will
leave us
>> alone, forever.
>
>
>then why do they have links on their site to both ticalc.org and the
ti-files?
>why would they encourage something they intend to shutdown?
The links intend to bring more people to such sites as ticalc.org. The
more the merrier...right? Wrong. There are people dedicated enough to the
TI-files that they might actually write an ASM program, put a portion of a
TI ROM image at the end of the program, upload to ticalc.org, warn TI-files
not to get the file, alert TI when ticalc.org accepts the program, and no
one would ever be the wiser (not to give TI-files lovers any ideas though
;) Such a mess up could be fatal to ticalc.org. While TI might just give
a warning the first time, they would seriously consider suing the second,
and would do so the third. All it takes is one or two people using TI's
links to such web sites to start the whole process.
Thomas J. Hruska -- thruska@tir.com
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