Re: copyright
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Re: copyright
With the ROM image, you essentially have the calculator because you can run it
on an emulator. That is one reason TI would definitely mind if the ROM is
being distributed; the other is just that they want to protect their
copyright.
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Jeff Tyrrill
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-----Original Message-----
From: Open discussion of TI Graphing Calculators On Behalf Of Oleg Shvartsman
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 1997 1:18 PM
To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: copyright
Richard Bowman wrote:
>
>
> Hmmm... Oh, yes that makes sense... TI would be _pleased_ for you to
> distribute the source code of their calculator for free. Oh, yes, that
> makes
> bunches of sense. I am sure they would be about as pleased as if
> Microsoft
> saw that you had posted the 11 million lines of Windows95 code (eww,
> thats a
> lot of spagetti code <G>)...
But you are missing one SMALL difference: there are tons of PCs around,
and you can compile win95 to run on any of them for free, for example.
And the source to ROM is useless without a calc to run it on, and all
calcs do come from TI (AFAIK... :) and we pay for them
> TI doesn't make very much money off of you downloading a free ROM, so
> I am
> thinking that might not help finish much. Sounds more like it would
> hurt
> business more.
Exactly how? They aren't making money selling TI-OS, like MicroSloth
is. They are selling the chips, and the OS comes with 'em...
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