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

Bradley Mattice bradwart at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 09:41:24 EDT 2014


OS 1 is public, we'll have years until OS 2 and 2.1 are in the public domain. 

Sent from my iPad Air

> On Jun 24, 2014, at 6:22 AM, Chris Browder <kcfoxie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Educate me here. I thought the newton became abandoned this past year and this was in the public domain? 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> 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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>> 
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