H&P: AmigaOS4 design competition

[KennyR]

There are copyright icons by JoBBo and Ocinel appearing in these screenshots - this is piracy. Toaks, please stop ripping other people's hard work.

[KennyR]

@Wayne

Several of those icons come from icon sets that are ONLY available on the official MorphOS CD or on the MorphOS FTP (only available to Pegasos owners). They were produced under licence. Ergo, their use by someone who doesn't own a Pegasos or a MorphOS CD is piracy. Say what you like, that's the law. Whether or not they're used in a screenshot is immaterial.

And I'm sure you wouldn't be happy if people kept ripping bits of your PHP code and using them to help a competitor.

[KennyR]

xeron wrote:
Jesus christ people, when did you all become "copyright crusaders"?

I wouldn't even care normally, but given these wild accusations over the past years that "MorphOS was a ripped off AmigaOS based on stolen AmigaOS code" and the current "MorphOS users are pirates, the freeware crowd", I think the irony and hypocrisy has reached too much of a level to be ignored.

We wouldn't want OS4 users to get the reputation of pirates, or OS4 as a reputation of a ripped off version of MorphOS, would we?

How much money do you think Genesi are losing by someone using some icons from morphos, that could have been cropped from a morphos screenshot anyway?

Money isn't the only reason you protect your intellectual property. Ask JoBBo how he feels about everyone ripping off his stuff. Maybe even track down Martin Huttenlöher and ask him how he felt when shops started selling Amigas using his MagicWB icons - without paying him a cent.

[KennyR]

Cockney_dave wrote:
Errrrr.... buy Mac OS X maybe as that's where a lot of the icons in Toaks screenshots originate, not Morph OS.

Most are from MacOS X. Some are from MorphOS (for example, the ATC icon).

[KennyR]

Wayne wrote:
It's one of the major reasons that they're not on my Christmas card list, though compared to our only alternative I'll take McEwen and Fleecy any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.

McEwen and Fleecy never were an option.