Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!rochester!rick From: rick@rochester.UUCP (Rick Floyd) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Wombat computer suit Message-ID: <4700@rochester.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 18:43:15 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.4700 Posted: Thu Feb 2 18:43:15 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 01:49:59 EST Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 16 In the February 1984 Byte (well - I wanted to look at the Macintosh pictures), page 8, was the following important piece of information: "Apple Computer Inc. lost a copyright suit against an Australian computer dealer that sold the Taiwan-made Wombat computer, an Apple-compatable machine reportedly selling for about one-third of the Apple's price. Apple was told by an Australian federal court that computer ROM programs are not literary works and couldn't be protected by Australia's copyright laws... Watch out unc!tim. They'll be everywhere soon. rick floyd uucp: (seismo | allegra)!rochester!rick arpa: rick@rochester "Have you hugged my T-shirt today?"