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DarQ
msx professional
Posts: 839 |  Posted: January 18 2003, 19:55 |
sad
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: January 18 2003, 20:01 |
duh
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4992 | Posted: January 27 2003, 10:25 |
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Even so, I think both you and I agree that Microsoft will try and sue the person/company who releases an official MSX emulator running an MSX-(compatible)-BIOS. |
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DarQ
msx professional
Posts: 839 | Posted: January 28 2003, 16:58 |
m$ always seems to find a way to annoy more and more compugeeks!
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Grauw
msx professional
Posts: 1006 | Posted: January 29 2003, 20:39 |
If it's just an MSX-compatible BIOS Microsoft will definately not sue. Commercially seen this is not interesting since the served market is small anyways, and judically seen they don't have a case at all, they don't (can't) own the patents of the bios-design, so there's nothing to sue about.
~Grauw
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: January 29 2003, 23:32 |
Especially not with the precedent set by Compaq, who reverse engineered the IBM PC BIOS and started manufacturing IBM PC-Compatible computers which gave rise to the PC industry as we know it today.
Ofcourse reverse engineering the MSX BIOS cannot be done in the USA, because under the DMCA reverse engineering is strictly illegal. sigh
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