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Offline KennyR

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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.

Just as well petitions are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard, eh?
 

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Re: Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2002, 02:54:44 AM »
Rapidly sliding OT here, but reverse engineering *is* very illegal - look at any of the legal mush that comes with most (all?) commercial software! And what did you think the legal problems with Amithlon were about then? Parking tickets?

Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because a law is unenforcable that it is non-existent. After all, AInc caught out Amithlon on a technicality, and there's always the chance MOS or AROS might get the same treatment.

I'm beginning to think some people think the Amiga belongs to them. Wrong! It belongs to AInc, not the "community". They paid for it and can do anything they like with it regardless of petitions or protests or flames. None of us can change that. Just get over it.

If they let us down, we don't have to follow them, do we?