I'm not signing this dumb petition. Amiga Inc. aren't doing anything illegal, which is more than I can say of the 3rd party AmigaOS code use (whether reverse-engineered or otherwise) of Amithlon, MOS or AROS. Open software is a pirates paradise. If you want to be open, get Linux - and be used to always having to survive on handouts.
Piracy is not more related to open source software then proprietary software. Both have a license and if you violate them you are a pirate. Then it doesn't matter if it is a proprietary or an open source license. Only it is much easier to violate a proprietary license then an open source license.
Secondly, I am an AROS developer and I don't like it to be compared to a pirate. The AROS developers are very concerned about intellectual property so tell me what we are doing legally wrong and I'm sure it will be corrected in no time.
Staf.
PS: To get back to the original topic. In an ideal world people would not use software they haven't paid for. Unfortunately this is not the case and the only way to survive as a new OS software company is to be sure that your software is delivered with the hardware. So I think Amiga Inc. had to do the necessary evil with their licensing.
