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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:14715 comp.unix.bsd:7439 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:35173 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!curtis From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: The Sega Lawsuit and Diamond Date: 4 Nov 1992 18:38:05 GMT Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <1d95adINNplc@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1992Nov3.215919.17713@menudo.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: moccasin.cs.berkeley.edu In article <1992Nov3.215919.17713@menudo.uh.edu> cosc17zz@menudo.uh.edu (Daniel Supernaw-Issen) writes: > >Last night the following occured to me. Given that Sega lost its lawsuit >resulting in a ruling that allowed the dissassembly of ROMs for the purposes >of creating an interfacing product, why can't Diamonds ROMs be similarly >disassembled? Because they would sue you anyway. True, they would probably lose - if the case came to court. But unless you have a fortune to spend on legal defense, it wouldn't. Welcome to the good ol' US of A. c