Legal issue of Kickstart ROMs

[Belial6]

I think the best that could ever happen for the AMIGA community would be freeing the AMIGA Kickstart.

If believe if Kickstart would be free this will give AMIGA a new momentum.

This is why I keep hoping someone with the right skill sets will take on the job of porting AROS to 68k.  I know that it isn't totally compatible, but it would be a huge step forward in getting there.

[Belial6]

Why?  Someone has legal rights to them.  How about you give me your car for free, I think you should.  You didn't invent or create it, it's certainly not yours.

The "they created it so they should have exclusive rights forever" idea is simply bunk.  I have yet to see a single completely original idea.  Not one.  That includes the Kickstart Roms.  I have also not met one single person in my life that has not committed copyright violations.  The whole of human society has been built off freely using the ideas of those before you.  I'm not going to say that the idea of copyright is inherently wrong, but it is not property.  It is not a finite resource.  It is damaging to society as a whole for it to last as long as it does, and it is particularly damaging to our culture for it to last as long as it does.

Copyright is the law, but to claim that it is morally right is silly.

[Belial6]

I don't know if you were joking about the Pacer, but I can definitly say that I loved my Pacer.  I always figured that it was modeled after the Pylons in Land of the Lost.  You know, bigger on the inside than it was on the outside.

As for your car analogy, yes, you may have a piece of paper that says you own it, but if you leave it sitting out on the street long enough with the vin filed off so that no one can identify that you own it, you will lose your ownership pretty quickly.