19 Mar
2008
19 Mar
'08
3:52 a.m.
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, woodelf wrote:
I was thinking of a case, but no real ones come to
mind since the example
companies are still around. The example I was thinking of was a custom
DOS for a 8088 machine I had got about 1996. That problem is I got some
floppies but no DOS system disk. I ended tossing the machine, since I
could not get a DOS system disk for formating floppies and stuff.
I had one model 1 TRS-80 with Omikron CP/M and hardware mods.
I had another one, with Parasitic Engineering CP/M and hardware mods.
But, I had no CP/M system disk for the Parasitic Engineering system. I
located Howard Fullmer of the defunct Parasitic Engineering (he went to
Morrow) He would not give me a system disk unless I purchased the entire
retail package (including the hardware mods). His legal right.
Intellectual property can be transferred to another owner, or even
inherited. When George Morrow died, his estate owned his intellectual
property, including "Quotations from Chairman Morrow". Fortunately, his
relatives released "quotations" into public domain.