On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 7:48 PM Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com> wrote: > Even sharing the files alone with friends can backfire. I feel > particularly angry on behalf of Thomas Franz (toms) on Forum64 and his > 1581 design. That things went so badly on that design means he'll be > even less likely to share the RAMLink and SCPU reverse engineering he > completed. > > Jim > > I'm not interested in 1581 stuff so I didn't watch that project closely. Now that you mention it I hopped on to forum64 to watch the drama but original designer (toms01) seemed ok with everything going on around that 1581 replica. Investigating further I see cloning (though not adding some features) a 1581 board dates at least back to 15 years ago. Since it's done commercially (I'm talking about clone's clone here) it's up to personal opinion of course but the original work being done seems not much different from documentation we easily consume over the web about these retro computers. Once software is involved though it's another topic of discussion. Lack of such intellectual property (such as in this case) of course makes copying or defending copying easier. I'm not undervaluing the reverse engineering effort put into that replica of course but in the end without any extra intellectual property it's doomed to be copied. (Especially if also there is sufficient interest too.)Received on 2022-05-06 02:00:08
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