[A83] Fwd: RE: TI-OS replacement
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I asked TI for clarification. Can anybody understand/clarify this response?
Are there really already alternative OSes?
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Subject: RE: TI-OS replacement
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:20:38 -0600
From: "Josh Brown" <ti-cares@ti.com>
To: nickptar@mindspring.com
Nick,
Thank you for contacting Texas Instruments, an educational technology
company.
Currently there is no prohibition against writing any form of software as
long as it does not infringe on someone else's copyright and does not
violate United States law. Several alternative Operating Systems located on
other Third-Party websites are prime examples of this.
I hope you find this information helpful. If you have further questions or
comments please feel free to contact me at your convenience. Please copy
this message in your response and send directly to ti-cares@ti.com for
faster service on replies.
Regards,
Josh Brown
Texas Instruments
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From: Nick Tarleton <nickptar@mindspring.com> on 12/07/2002 03:06
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EST To: ti-cares@ti.com cc:
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Subject: TI-OS replacement
I have heard about the legal issues with Michael Vincent's planned TI-OS
replacement. I would like to know (because I haven't quite gathered this):
Is
a replacement (with no original TI-OS code) legal? If not, why not? How
could
it hurt your revenue (given that you distribute the TI-OS for free, it's
useless without an actual calculator or a ROM-dump [which can only be
legally
obtained from an actual calculator], and there are much easier ways to hack
FlashApps)? I'm curious, since I'd really like to see an alternative OS.
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