Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
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Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
In a message dated 11/18/98 22:02:11 Eastern Standard Time, thruska@tir.com
writes:
> At 03:02 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:
> >
> >>
> >> Ummm...He who is the archiver at ticalc.org doesn't know that the 82
has
> >> assembly capabilities? He who personally put CrASH, ASH, JASS, and
> >> OShell-82 shells for the TI-82 says it no longer exists. This sounds
> like
> >> hypocrisy to me. Besides, how did we get an 82 shell in the first
place?
>
> >> Someone had to use the TI ROM for research purposes. So, Bryan
> Rabeler, if
> >> TI doesn't allow their ROM to be used for research purposes, you had
> better
> >> remove every last assembly shell, game, and program from the 82
> directories
> >> or you are in serious legal trouble. However, TI can't and won't
> prosecute
> >> since "programming research" is legal under the copyright law.
> >
> >
> >ti did not support assembly on the ti-82, so it was NOT meant to be
> >programmed, which voids all uses of "programming research" in
investigating
> >the rom of the ti-82. in contrast, ti supported assembly on the ti-86, so
> it
> >was meant to be programmed, justifying the "programming research" claim.
>
> So, according to the paragraph that you have just written, you are fully
> supporting everything that I have said. Since "programming research" is
> void for the investigation of the 82 ROM image, then every last assembly
> shell, game, and program must be deleted from the TI-82 directories at
> ticalc.org (and other major sites) or they are in serious legal trouble
> since everything can be linked to "programming research" on the 82 ROM.
> Yet, you also give the EXCEPTION that it is perfectly legal to distribute
> the 86 ROM image since TI supported assembly under the legal umbrella of
> "programming research." So, I'm just making sure that you know that you
> are _FOR_ 86 ROM image distribution and _AGAINST_ 82 ROM distribution
> because of one minor thing: internal assembly support. You are saying
> therefore that it is perfectly legal to distribute any TI ROM image that
> has internal assembly support. This excludes the TI-85 and TI-82
> calculators only.
if you think you've caught me implying something i didn't mean, you're wrong.
that's EXACTLY what i meant. just like microsoft has to reveal info about
windows (even though they don't completely...), ti has to release info about
the TI-86, because they're both programming platforms.
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