| From: | Ewan J Carmichael |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 18:24:35 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
> Don Cox wrote:-
> Hardware is expensive to manufacture, but likewise less likely to be
> pirated. I've never seen a pirate A1200.
I'm not over sure about the history of this, but wasn't the
first IBM PC technology cloned by a load of other companies who then
flooded the market with their PC's because of a loophole in their
patents? If this is the case then surely it was a form of hardware
piracy that helped make the PC as big and popular a machine as it
has become?
From what I've read, I think that the patents for Macs and Amigas
were much better drawn up and no loopholes were found.
Ewan.
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