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ShapeShifter & UtilitiesUnlimited
Witam,
Jakis czas temu natchnalem sie na historie Utilities Unlimited (to ci goscie
od Emplanta jakby ktos nie wiedzial ;) napisana przez samego Jim'a Drew.
Jest tam dosc ciekawy kawalek nawiazujacy do Shape Shifter'a:
[...]
About this time ShapeShifter was released. After Joe and I looked at it, we
were pissed beyond belief. The majority of the code came from AMAX IV, with
some of our code, and even Apple's code. I immediately starting documenting
the code, and the changes that the code went through after several releases
(especially after making it clear that much of the code was 'borrowed').
After going through the lawsuit in the UK, the owner did not want to attempt
to go after 'some kid in Germany', because it would cost too much money, and
we would get nothing back.
I sent two registered letters to the author, and each letter was returned
undeliverable. I just wanted him to stop while he was ahead. Joe and I are
probably the best 68K reverse engineerers in the world. We have gone through
gigs of code over the last 4 years, figuring out why certain MAC
applications
do weird things with our MAC emulation. We can tell which Apple engineer
wrote
any part of the ROM or OS code, based on their programming style. We knew
AMAX IV well too. It was easy to document what code came from where inside
of
ShapeShifter.
At this point I really can't do much about ShapeShifter, although there are
a
couple of legal councils in Germany willing to take 80% of the earnings of a
successful lawsuit. Personally, I think that when judgement day rolls
around,
the author will wish that ShapeShifter was just a character in Archon...
[...]
Osobiscie nie sadze aby mijalo sie to z prawda, ale chcialbym sie dowiedziec
co Wy o tym myslicie, czy zadanie 50DM za zarejestrowanie ShapeShiftera
jest uzasadnione.
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