RE: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
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RE: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
At 06:51 AM 11/16/98 +0100, you wrote:
>The ROM image is like commercial software. As you know, it is illegal to
>pirate/warez programs such as Microsoft Office, Windows, Photoshop, Quake,
>etc. The same principle applies to TI ROM images. Believe it or not, TI
>spent lots of money to programing and test the ROM so your calculator is
>near perfect. When you buy that TI-89 for $130+, a majority of that goes
>to buy a copy of the ROM image. That is your own, personal copy of it.
>You can, of course, extract your ROM for backup purposes, the same as you
>can keep a backup copy of software. However, if you want to run two
>copies at once, you would need to purchase a second copy.
This still doesn't prove that "distributing the ROM image for __programming
research__" isn't legal. You are talking about just general use of the
ROM. I am talking about research of various types. You also can't
research MS Office at the programming level since it only has a specific
set of purposes already researched. ROM images are different in this sense
and are legal to distribute according to my previously defined reasons on
"programming research".
All I have left to say is: Prove it.
>On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
>
>>
>> At 06:28 AM 11/16/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> >Distributing the ROM image for "programming research" doesn't make it
>> >legal.
>>
>> Prove it.
Thomas J. Hruska -- thruska@tir.com
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