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AmiKit and Terms of Use
« on: July 04, 2007, 05:54:08 AM »
 As a longtime owner and user(intermittently) of computers Amiga plus a whole bunch of other ones,I thought it might be interesting to try AmiKit.

  Already have legal Amiga Forever on an XP machine,by the way.

  Anyway, I find that the Terms of Use seem to prohibit anyone not a vegetarian and pacifist from downloading or using AmiKit.
  Pity.

  Restricting the potential user base is not likely to make your OS a huge success.And since all forms of violence are condemned it would appear anyone who eats meat,realizes the need to control animal populations,or is willing to fight to protect his life,wife,or Amiga from attackers can't use AmiKit.

 Did I read the site correctly or are the Terms a joke? :-?
 

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Re: AmiKit and Terms of Use
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2007, 01:59:01 PM »

   I would like the person(s) who wrote the Terms of Use to clarify this phrase;

    by people who accept, support or use any kind of violent or other aggressive behaviour against other people or animals.
 
   

  I suppose it all depends on the reading of aggressive.Does the author believe hunting is aggressive? Or demanding all people convert their belief to one's  deity or system of government on pain of death?While I don't hunt, I certainly condone it ,for there are far too many deer and coyotes in the Ohio valley.Of course an interesting point is that persons of evil intent won't care about copyrights,patents,the Golden Rule,or any other restraint they can evade.

  All these Amiga lawsuits must have put me in a lawyer's state of mind.

  I always thought the best software license I'd seen stated "treat this software like a book.use it on only one computer at a time,and if you lend it,do not use it yourself at the same time;do not make any copies other than one for backup purposes, and do not give away or sell copies of this software;and if you sell the software package,keep no copies or materials but give all of it to the new owner.Additional licenses should be purchased for each computer if the software will be run on more than one computer at the same time."