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List:       newtontalk
Subject:    Re: [NTLK] Assuming this is acceptable, ROM image for Einstein...
From:       Chris Browder <kcfoxie () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-06-25 0:25:21
Message-ID: 009914D5-BE93-49AC-878E-6E6A7C21B17D () gmail ! com
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Now it makes sense.

Apple have away system 7.5.3, in wonder if they would do the same to the newton rom \
if asked? It's new management you know. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 24, 2014, at 7:56 PM, Matthias Melcher <mm@matthiasm.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> The trademark for "Newton", "MessagePad" and the lightbulb logo have not been \
> extended and consequently ran out last year. We could now officially call the \
> Emulator "New Newton" or something and use the lightbulb as an icon. 
> Patents as well have run out, unless there are follow-up patents, but that is \
> impossible to research but for a patent attorney. 
> Copyright however has a much longer expiration time. In the US it is 95 years for \
> anonymous works, or 70 years after the death of a person for personal work.  
> In the end though, I do not think that anyone at Apple gives Einstein or NewtonOS a \
> second thought. 
> > On Jun 24, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Chris Browder <kcfoxie@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@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > ~~~ On 2014/06/24 10:11, Matthias Melcher at mm@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 
> > > 
> > > ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
> > > 
> > > *The Destruction Of Life As We Know It*
> > > might not be as relevant to Newtons
> > > as poutine.
> > > -- Lord Groundhog
> > > 
> > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzpdPJ7Zr4
> > > (With thanks to Chod Lang)
> > > http://tinyurl.com/29y2dl
> > > http://www.diyplanner.com/node/3942
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
> > > Get MUGged and love it: http://www.oxmug.org/
> > > Where Newtonians meet: http://www.newtontalk.net/
> > > 
> > > 
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