Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
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Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
yeah but if you got the source to outlook they wont go into the hole over
it. Their cash cow is the operating systems because they can use it to
control companies and software developers. LIKE AOL =] I actually remember
that case 4 years ago where ms has win95 coded not to let aol 2.x (or 3.x)
not to run on most configurations. This turned into an issue of weather ms
has that right or not. The case lasted a week so I'd assume that a healthy
kickback by aol to microsoft problebly took care of that issue with a little
hint on a workaround in the next aol release which did follow immediately
after the case.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Rabeler <rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
>
> Microsoft does have other sources of income besides Windows, you know. :)
They
> also sell Windows to OEMs dirt cheap, far less than what you would buy it
in a
> store.
>
> Bryan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Serial" <Serial@earthlink.net>
> To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 5:45 PM
> Subject: Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
>
>
> >
> > The source to a program is a whole other animal. It's the source that
can
> > become public domain after a product is deemed outsold and not going to
make
> > any money by the company. The sources are way way different than the
exe.
> > However the idea is the same, if adobe put the source on their site it's
now
> > a GNU product. They may make money off cd's from business still but not
> > likely. the doom source was released because it made id no money so for
no
> > gain of their own they basically helped inspiring first person shooter
game
> > writters. I mean think of this.. if the source to windows 2000 and/or 98
got
> > out microsoft would likely go bankrupt overnight, this is the reason it
is
> > not on the internet but rather on Mr. Super Computer in an isolated room
> > beind a shitload of steel and codes.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Olle Hedman <oh@hem.passagen.se>
> > To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 8:08 AM
> > Subject: Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > yeah. whatever. I am just waiting if there will be any response from
TI.
> > > I have not got any mail yet, but they have been visiting me again.
> > > Either they don't care, or they are teaming up their laywers ;)
> > > The only change I have done so far, is that I no longer distribute the
> > newest
> > > rom version. If anyone wants that, they can just as well download it
from
> > TI.
> > >
> > > file://Olle
> > >
> > > Scott Dial wrote:
> > > > Isn't this one of those situations where the software becomes public
> > > > domain or something like that. I thought when software was no longer
in
> > > > production that it becomes public domain after certain amount of
time.
> > > > Whatever...
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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