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		titzer 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the bel... Read the article. He copied the BIOS code straight up, including the copyright notice itself. That's blatant copyright infringement.

alnwlsn 20 days ago | [–]

This was not understood to be so at the time, and the resulting court case was THE precedent that says that it is.

Franklin even won the initial case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Frankl....

bjord 20 days ago | [–]

who, benjamin franklin?

titzer 20 days ago | [–]

Sorry, they--i.e. Franklin computer.

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