Re: copyright

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: copyright
From: Oleg Shvartsman <oshvarts@GW.FORD.COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:17:34 -0400
Organization: Ford Motor Company
References: <199707230756.BAA28857@raptor.nethosting.com>
Reply-To: Oleg Shvartsman <oshvarts@GW.FORD.COM>
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Richard Bowman wrote:
>
>
> Hmmm... Oh, yes that makes sense...  TI would be _pleased_ for you to
> distribute the source code of their calculator for free. Oh, yes, that
> makes
> bunches of sense. I am sure they would be about as pleased as if
> Microsoft
> saw that you had posted the 11 million lines of Windows95 code (eww,
> thats a
> lot of spagetti code <G>)...

But you are missing one SMALL difference: there are tons of PCs around,
and you can compile win95 to run on any of them for free, for example.
And the source to ROM is useless without a calc to run it on, and all
calcs do come from TI (AFAIK... :) and we pay for them

> TI doesn't make very much money off of you downloading a free ROM, so
> I am
> thinking that might not help finish much. Sounds more like it would
> hurt
> business more.

Exactly how?  They aren't making money selling TI-OS, like MicroSloth
is. They are selling the chips, and the OS comes with 'em...

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