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Re: Amiga Inc answers your questions
« on: September 14, 2006, 01:43:21 AM »
First of all my condolences ,albeit  late. Mr McEwen. Such a loss would cause many to seek new directions to keep busy.Yet Bill has stayed with the Amiga.

 A couple of other points; Is anyone selling a half-million a year of strictly Amiga product? And what?

 After reading the answers I know very little more than before;we are told it is all tied up in legal wrangling,that plans have been made, and something should be appearing on retail sale soon.

 I confess to being utterly confused by discussions of value-added,content provider, and most of the answers. I don't even understand what Amiga has to do with making a phone call.In the business where I work dozens of engineers,suppliers,contractors, and delivery people use their phones seemingly only to communicate the spoken word and then put them away until it rings. The fact that many industrial and other sites ban camera equiped phones may have some bearing on this.

 I guess  what some? many? of us wanted to hear was "the new Amiga will be introduced in time for Christmas buying or the new  Whizbang game console will feature the Amiga OS in partnership with Whizbang LLC ..."

 I thank Wayne for his effort and Bill for answers constained by lawyers; just still waiting for the real dawn of a new day.
 

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Re: Amiga Inc answers your questions (updated)
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2006, 12:10:08 AM »
The following is of course,my opnion but ought to be obvious:

The  ridiculous extensions and other greed enacted by the U.S. Congress on behalf of some big entertainment corporations such as Disney  have stifled innovation for the average citizen.

 At a time when software,best selling books, and movies' life cyles was measured in less than a decade Congress extended copyrights nearly a century,allowed going back and  copyrighting works that had fallen into the public domain under the laws then extant. If that wasan't ex post facto, what is?

 But under current American law if I owned Amiga OS rights ,I could insist that no one be allowed to use any of it without meeting my conditions,no matter how greedy or  even ridiculous. I could evn decide that I will not permit the ungrateful public to use it at all.And sue anyone who tried to do so.

  And American law is particularly odious if it prohibits the user from making adjustments to a product so it will better meet his needs. Yet American laws in the form of the one-sided EULA software license does just that,and if every law were fully enforced the whole nation  would be in jail.

 Just too many lawyers.....

 IF  the very near future sees the release of Amiga OS on a game console /set=top box by a large manufacturer at a reasonable price THEN I will quietly celebrate.

 Bill sell a few tens million installs of Amiga OS for Wii or PS3 or similar at $5? a unit and GET IT OUT THERE!