Date   : Tue, 05 Mar 1996 12:27:57 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Mark Cooke <mpc@...>
Subject: Re: BBC: Radical rethinks! :-)

On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, William Turner wrote:

> It's not quite that simple. There is still stuff in the ROMs that has
> commercial value to us (BBC Basic springs to mind). Making the ROMs
> publically available makes it much more difficult for us to maintain
> control over this material. Also, like I said, the decision is not
> purely down to Acorn Computers....

Well - how about providing access to the roms on a limited license manner 
to the authors of completed / demonstrable emulators free of charge? Acorn
could then retain control over the roms, while still being 'friendly' to
the developers.

Just another suggestion to consider.

Mark

Mark Cooke                             The views expressed above are mine
Systems Programmer                     and do not reflect in any way the
University Of Birmingham               current policy of my employers.