Re: TI-H: Copyright info
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Re: TI-H: Copyright info
This is hardware related because of the fact that if this thing isn't cared
up then their would hardly be any since in having one. If everybody was
that protective of a design then Only one person would have aserial like or
Ir Link. Gof let them finish it if thye have to. You can simply
trashanyhitng that has copyright now it. It is not like you are the only
one on here.
John Fraser @ Happyware 1997
Can you live without the EuP
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> From: MrNETo@aol.com
> To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: TI-H: Copyright info
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 15:11:53 -0500 (EST)
>
> 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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