Re: A89: Me distributing roms.

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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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