[NTLK] Supply rom image?

[Chris Browder]

Photoshop is mighty powerful ....

I really didn't know that any of the ROM was still used today. That seems
very unusual given that absolute departure from RISC architecture in
today's Macs.


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Marisa Giancarla <fstltna at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hmm, how about i have them put their name and email in the picture of
> their newton? That would be hard to fake wouldnt it?
>
> Marisa
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> On Jun 23, 2014, at 1:15 PM, "Newton Support" <newtonsupport at pda-soft.de>
> wrote:
>
> >> What do you think about providing the ROM image to those who can submit
> a
> > picture of a real newton?
> >
> > Personally, I think this is a very bad idea. I guess Google pictures
> would
> > provide us with about ten thousand of those within half a second.
> >
> > The official claim of Einstein's developers is that people must have a
> real
> > hardware they can suck the ROM image from. Even that is - in my humble
> and
> > unimportant opinion - doubtful from a legal point of view. But if we
> were to
> > tear down the one and only obstacle between possible distribution of
> Apple's
> > intellectual property and obvious distribution of said property, we might
> > jeopardize the nighttime's peace of the remaining Einstein developers,
> one
> > of which is yours truly.
> >
> > I personally believe Apple couldn't care less, and I also believe that
> what
> > we are doing might not even be illegal in Germany. But I'd rather not
> risk
> > getting on Apple's lawyers' hit list...
> >
> > I'm of course aware that nowadays it can't be prevented that somebody
> puts a
> > file up for download that many others want. However, I'd prefer not to
> know
> > about it, and I doubt the remaining Einstein developers will ever
> encourage
> > this.
> >
> > If I may make a suggestion, I'd suggest you remove this file asap from
> the
> > location you posted. If people ask you for it, it is your decision how to
> > handle this request. The Einstein developers (I think I'm speaking for
> > Matthias here, too) will never encourage the ROM image's free
> distribution
> > unless Apple officially allows it, which is more than doubtful since
> parts
> > of what's in this ROM is still used in today's Macs.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Frank
> >
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