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Offline JoannaK

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Re: Is this thread for real? (AInc has <$100)
« on: September 09, 2003, 02:32:23 AM »
Well. That document R.Woods has published (check link from moobunny)
seems to fit with most of the things I have been hearing during last
year or so. Can't be 100% sure of it's authenticity but I can't
remeber Amigainc been declaring this (or older copies of counrt
records he's been putting to his website) being fake.

Edit..
http://www.flyingmice.com/cgi-bin/squidcgi/mbmessage.pl/amiga/90774.shtml

(sorry.. those javasript thingys on this site don't work on Voyager so
no directly clickable link..)
 

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Re: Is this thread for real? (AInc has <$100)
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2003, 12:26:25 AM »
Methuselas: Agree on most of this... Well written and has
essentials in it.

(IMHO IANAL)

Hyperion Owning their written code is likely to be clear, but do
Hyperion have undisputable right to distribute it cause they have
openly admitted USING old copyrighted sourcecode as a reference
without paying license to it's rigthfull owner (whoerver that happen
to be by the time OS4 is released?)?.

Besides.. that would not get them home free. They have announced usign
a lot of old 3rd party products (like ARexx) whose licensing  had been
questioable even today. If this Ainc-collapse happens, (imho) Hyperion
has *NO* way to include any of those olds parts whatsoever without
major hassle (+exxpense) of relicensing them all. Or to
re-implementing them...


And third.. Name.. That they can't get to it.. so may it be HypeOS or
whatever it would not be any more Amiga than those other ones. ... Ok
I know some people will consider 'original source' a major differing
factor... :)
 

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Re: Is this thread for real? (AInc has <$100)
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2003, 02:23:00 AM »
Note: Following text may sound a bit cruel, but in the end this is how
I honestly feel about all this.. And this all is IMHO. So if you need
to flame, do so, but try to keep it more or lessĀ into this subject.
And I know I make typos.. :)

Yes.. I too would miss Amiga if it's gone for good, but not so much I
would jump to help them blindly and without some quarantees. And I
know.. this entire situation where AmigaInc and companions are  is
highly debatable, and we can go on years discussing who is guilty and
who is not.. But nothing happens until this mess starts to unravel
itself and for there need to be some action.

Unless major course change happens, I can't place my trust on them
again. And without trust of things to be changed for good, I'm not
going to be part of any rescue/reanimation project. I know ther's no
way to force things to happen, but in the end... They need our (or at
least someones?) money and support to go on, not the other way
around.

(edit removed practical suggestions for sorting things out.. aren't
likely to happen..)
 

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Re: Is this thread for real? (AInc has <$100)
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2003, 01:52:48 PM »
Dammy: well. there were other alternativeies back then too.. After C=
busted I used windowses, OS/2 Warp, Beos, Linuxes and more windowses.

What I have larned is.. I don't like Linuxes (as personal OS) and
havign to use windowse for rest of life ain't too positive idea
either..