Statement From Bill McEwen on Thendic-Amiga

[KennyR]

Tse, you'd think a webmaster would know how to use an open proxy...

[Kees]

Tse, you'd think a webmaster would know how to use an open proxy...

I'm still learning  :-)

[KennyR]

I didn't mean you, Kees, I meant HMetal. I assume you were able to tell Bucket was him because of his IP. So he's not exactly l33t despite being a webmaster. ;-)

[mdwh2]

It's one thing to post their side of the story of whatever legal shenanigans are going on this week, but I find it sad that he takes the opportunity to attack AmigaOS users.

Go after a distributer by all means (eg, a hypothetical retailer selling Pegasos machines running OS4 when it's out), but I never agreed to any EULA, so I'll legally run my legally obtained OS3.9 on anything I damn well like.

Trying to pass off EULAs as legal contracts is one of the things that I dislike about companies such as Microsoft; it's sad to see them going the same route.

[Doobrey]

From the Bill McEwans statement:
"Therefore if the Amiga operating system is being used on a non-Amiga branded machine the use would be prohibited."

 So where does that leave UAE and Amithlon/ AmigaXL ?

[downix]

@doobrey

Or the Draco?  How about the Access?

[JoannaK]

Mdwh2: those Eula:s are (among other problems on M$ policies) big
reason why I am here at the moment. IF M$ had kept it on sensible
level (like win2k) I might be willing to use their products onward.
BUT with those new Eulas (etc) I really haveto look for some
alternativies.

And IF this agressive Eula is really AmigaInc's official new policy
I'm not going to consider them much longer. What I wonder though is
have they actually consulted any laywers on all this, or do they
assume to be able to follow other bigger companies (like M$) on this
one..

[downix]

@JoannaK

I'm also wondering, what EULA?  I have a boxed AmigaOS 3.1 here, don't see an EULA anywhere in the material.

[Dan]

   I'm also wondering, what EULA? I have a boxed AmigaOS 3.1 here, don't see an EULA anywhere in the material.

Was EULAs even invented back then? :-)

[downix]

@Dan

I got mine right after 3.5 came out, so the price had dropped.  (tee hee)  So yes, EULA's did exist back then.

[tekmage]

I to am concerned that Bill would go with an EULA threat.  It's obvious that this situation is causing much stress on Amiga Inc and Bill personally.  When I first read through the comments I did not understand to what "Bucket" was responding to.  Though the comments did shed much more light on the statement from Bill McEwen.  

@Kees

Thank you for trying to keep amiga.org honorable in all this but I think your failing

@ Wayne

I think what you did was an abuse of your power and in appropriate and make's Kees job much harder

@ Downix

Please think before you post.  If your typing something which you know you will retract just don't post it.  

@ Ray A Key

Snice your now perma baned from Amiga.org your welcome to send any appropriate, non flame, non trolling comments to me and I'll paste them in to any thread you wish.

@ Amigians

Give it time friends, time will tell which is the best solution.  Keep the faith!

Bill "tekmage" Borsari

[downix]

@tekmage

I wrote what I wrote because it's what I believe.  However, I realized after I got the material from Ray that he was not seeing things the same way I was, and that it would only cause more flaming if I fought him, so I edited to remove the logs to stoke the fire from.

[meerschaum]

well despite this reaction from Amiga.inc I still believe what bbrv have said, the situation makes more sense from their end.

Ray is in my opinion a devious character by all accounts, devious beyond corporate or 'non-personal' level... I dont trus thim at all... not even a little...

[redrumloa]

@tekmage

You are kidding right?

@all

Keep it clean g**d****t :-x

[System]

@all

Yes sir...

[downix]

@redrumloa

Yes SIR!

And is 3pm saturday good with you?