Re: TI-H: Copyright info

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: Copyright info
From: MrNETo@aol.com
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 15:11:53 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Read up on coyright laws and look back at what you all have said.   But
please take it's discussion to a Law list serv.  this is TI hardware..   find
the Law section.

    Thank you
   ~matt
     mrneto@aol.com
     migabyte9000@juno.com

PS  my mailbox has been flushed with this topic.  i did not subscribe to a
copyright legalities list serv..  (yes im beating a dead rat lik you all are
not following the list guidlines. and beating a rotting dead rat and like
youre messages are taking up my mailbox space, this one takes up yours.)

In a message dated 97-11-13 01:26:17 EST, you write:

<< No, but you can LEGALY Modify a design and slap your own brand name on 
 it.
 
 If you couldn't then all PCs would have IBM slapped accross the from 
 under the manfacturer's name, but Compac, back in 85 (I'm Not sure), 
 modified the design to the computer and added their own features and got 
 away with creating the first PC CLONE. It wan't an IBM PC. It was a 
 Compaq PC (even if it wasn't compact =).
 
 John went by the same theory. He modified the design a little slapped 
 his brand name on it because HE HAS THAT RIGHT LEGALY since he 
 manufactured it. He PAYS his royalty fees with every PIC he buys. Lets 
 not condemn a man for misinterperatation or misunderstanding. He was 
 given permission to build the things by brian, and he didn't respond 
 till YOU people took it on as a battle. Lets not fill the list with our 
 boycotts of Happyware or anything! I build EuP clones as well. I have 
 the legal right to slap my brand name on it (Betatron), but I just left 
 it at adding SPinTerface, only to identify it. GOD! It isn't safe to 
 build anything someone else designed anymore! Next you'll say we have to 
 purchase it only from the original designer!!! This is a hobby and some 
 people take it up 1: to build these things for those who can't do it 
 themselves, and 2: make a few extra dollars in the process, because it 
 is completely LEGAL.
 
 When John was asked, he said right out that it was based on the EuP made 
 by brian. He didn't walk aroung the question. He answered it when asked. 
 He updated his page so he would be 100% legal, but you still act like he 
 has sinned against the universe! How many of you turbo your calcs and 
 say "LOOK WHAT I DID!!! IT RUNS 3x AS FAST!!!" Ahh, but you forget to 
 mention Boris Lutz who first solved the mystery behind the turbo.
 
 Judge YOURSELVES before you lay judgement on others. I have done the 
 same. When I first introduced my SPinTerface Port and the SF Expander 
 (yes the SF orriginaly came BEFORE expander), I had a comparison of it 
 and Mel's original design! SOme saw it as contrasting two separate 
 products with totaly different hardware. I had links and everything, yet 
 this almost happened to me. He changed his page, so let it be left 
 alone! We don't have the bandwidth to send a million messages on how bad 
 it was for John and Happyware to leave out those oh so important 
 details. I say, Put up one big message and pray it is ammong the last.
 
 I realize that these big, dramatic messages are annoying and sometimes 
 offensive, but I have sent them before and they have stopped one all out 
 flame war and prevented another. Lets stop it here.
 
 Thanks!
 
 Richard Piotter
 
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