[NTLK] Assuming this is acceptable, ROM image for Einstein...

[Chris Browder]

Educate me here. I thought the newton became abandoned this past year and this was in the public domain? 

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> On Jun 24, 2014, at 8:44 AM, Lord Groundhog <lordgroundhog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ~~~ On 2014/06/24 10:11, Matthias Melcher at mm at matthiasm.com wrote ~~~
> 
>> 
>> Are we overthinking this? If someone wants to get a 717006 ROM, they will
>> download a 717006 ROM, right?
> 
> 
> That could be true, Matthias, or perhaps the issue for some folks isn't
> actual availability of the ROM.  Perhaps the concern is whether or not
> NewtonTalk in general and the people working on Einstein in particular could
> face nonsensical legal interference because blatant forms of distribution
> could poke Apple's legal rotweillers into action.
> 
> IOW perhaps our problem isn't whether the ROM "somehow" gets passed
> privately to people who will make good use of it, but whether those Apple
> guard dogs think we're openly encouraging/helping to turn distribution of
> "their" ROM into a cottage industry.  Guilt by association may not be real
> guilt, but lawyers making a point about intellectual property often are
> happy to club bystanders with it.
> 
> 
> 
> Just my 2 small copper coins of the currency of your choice.
> 
> 
> 
> Shalom, 
> 
> Christian 
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