[Coco] Old Coco Info

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

At 09:37 PM 8/5/04 -0500, Steve Ostrom wrote:
>"ROM Programs Held Not Copyrightable:  A decision made in a federal 
>court has held that object-code programs in read-only memory cannot be 
>copyrighted.  One of the bases for the decision was that the object code 
>is not a true copy of the source code, because it is not in a 
>human-readable form.  The decision was made in a case involving two 
>competing computerized chess-game manufacturers.  Data Cash Systems Inc 
>sued J S & A Group Inc for producing a chess game that uses read-only 
>memory code identical to its chess-game program, which was copyrighted 
>in source code."  -- July 1980, pg. 150, BYTE

In case you never saw this:
http://slashdot.org/features/00/01/20/1316236.shtml
"There's nobody getting rich writing software"
--Bill Gates