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Re: TI-H: Copyright info




Yes that may be ture I yes I think that is the way it should be but you ahve
to keep the person you buy the chips from happy or he can simply stop giving
them to you.

John Fraser @ Happyware 1997
 Can you live without the EuP
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happyware@cyberdude.com
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http://surf.to/happyware




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> From: "ryan pogge" <ryanpogge@hotmail.com>
> To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: TI-H: Copyright info
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:12:30 PST
> 
> acctualy he doesent own anything.
> you must purchas a copyright and it costs BIG bucks.
> so anyone can sell the eup or do whatever they want with it.
> 
> >From listown@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se Wed Nov 12 22:01:00 1997
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> >From: "Richard Piotter" <richfiles1@hotmail.com>
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> >>Bryan owns the copyright to the schematic.  He said people could 
> change 
> >it,
> >>but he still owns the copyright to it.
> >>
> >>If you were to change the monitor card in your computer (or resistors 
> >on
> >>the EuP) could you copyright the computer?
> >>
> >>>Exium copyright ) 1997 John Frasier
> >
> >No, but you can LEGALY Modify a design and slap your own brand name on 
> >it.
> >
> >If you couldn't then all PCs would have IBM slapped accross the from 
> >under the manfacturer's name, but Compac, back in 85 (I'm Not sure), 
> >modified the design to the computer and added their own features and 
> got 
> >away with creating the first PC CLONE. It wan't an IBM PC. It was a 
> >Compaq PC (even if it wasn't compact =).
> >
> >John went by the same theory. He modified the design a little slapped 
> >his brand name on it because HE HAS THAT RIGHT LEGALY since he 
> >manufactured it. He PAYS his royalty fees with every PIC he buys. Lets 
> >not condemn a man for misinterperatation or misunderstanding. He was 
> >given permission to build the things by brian, and he didn't respond 
> >till YOU people took it on as a battle. Lets not fill the list with our 
> >boycotts of Happyware or anything! I build EuP clones as well. I have 
> >the legal right to slap my brand name on it (Betatron), but I just left 
> >it at adding SPinTerface, only to identify it. GOD! It isn't safe to 
> >build anything someone else designed anymore! Next you'll say we have 
> to 
> >purchase it only from the original designer!!! This is a hobby and some 
> >people take it up 1: to build these things for those who can't do it 
> >themselves, and 2: make a few extra dollars in the process, because it 
> >is completely LEGAL.
> >
> >When John was asked, he said right out that it was based on the EuP 
> made 
> >by brian. He didn't walk aroung the question. He answered it when 
> asked. 
> >He updated his page so he would be 100% legal, but you still act like 
> he 
> >has sinned against the universe! How many of you turbo your calcs and 
> >say "LOOK WHAT I DID!!! IT RUNS 3x AS FAST!!!" Ahh, but you forget to 
> >mention Boris Lutz who first solved the mystery behind the turbo.
> >
> >Judge YOURSELVES before you lay judgement on others. I have done the 
> >same. When I first introduced my SPinTerface Port and the SF Expander 
> >(yes the SF orriginaly came BEFORE expander), I had a comparison of it 
> >and Mel's original design! SOme saw it as contrasting two separate 
> >products with totaly different hardware. I had links and everything, 
> yet 
> >this almost happened to me. He changed his page, so let it be left 
> >alone! We don't have the bandwidth to send a million messages on how 
> bad 
> >it was for John and Happyware to leave out those oh so important 
> >details. I say, Put up one big message and pray it is ammong the last.
> >
> >I realize that these big, dramatic messages are annoying and sometimes 
> >offensive, but I have sent them before and they have stopped one all 
> out 
> >flame war and prevented another. Lets stop it here.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Richard Piotter
> >
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