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Author Topic: The Gentleman's Debate: Should the 1.3 ROM be made free?  (Read 4793 times)

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Offline Sethy

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Ideally, it should be given to the community, along with it's source code. Whatever company now owns Amiga clearly has close to no profit left in the 1.x series of ROMs. Like all old software, it should be released under a very non-restrictive license. It generated free press, fosters good relations with the community involved and the company can monitor whatever happens and learn from it, if given some thought.

Then again, that's an ideal situation... Not likely to happen, but imagine if the 1.3 ROMs for example are released under a non-restrictive or perhaps even open source license? Can bet that someone, somewhere, will make it work on x86 eventually so you can use Workbench on your x86 machine without emulation :P