Re: Superdrive 2000?

Den Wed, 6 Jun 2018 00:01:20 +0100 skrev smf <smf@null.net>:
> >> I find it more plausible that they entered into an agreement with
> >> the FSD drive manufacturer in good faith, assuming that the
> >> manufacturer would handle the rest of the legalities.
> 
> If the drive manufacturers were able to sort out the legal issue of 
> shipping 1541 roms, they wouldn't have been buying JiffyDOS licenses
> in the first place.
> 
> The drive manufacturers must have thought that licensing JiffyDOS
> solved their problem completely or they wouldn't have done it.
> 
> Good faith is not what comes to mind.

Maybe both CMD and the FD manufacturers made this deal knowing that any
legal case from Commodores side would be harder to try in court.

They might also have relied on that Commodore suing CMD would mean
badwill for Commodore, and Commodore also probably wanted CMD so be
around anyway as CMD were one of the vendors that made Commodore serial
drives not appear as embarrassingly slow as they would in their default
configuration.

Also Commodore might had reconsidered their positions and realized that
third party drive vendors actually might had increased Commodores
revenue, by getting more C64s sold.

Also Commodore had almost complete control of the manufacturing process
of the computers them self, except variable market prices for DRAM
(which would affect all computer manufacturers), while for the
drives they had to rely on the mechanics vendor which must have been a
less reliable factor.


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