Where are all the Minimigs?

[Colin_Camper]

Coupled with the possibility that MiniMig is in violation of copyright.

Assuming that the board is shipped without KS or OS and that Dennis did not glimpse the original OCS ASIC designs......(They got lost while he was still in diapers! :-D )
 
Could you specify exactly how the minimig could possibly be in violation of copyright?

[Colin_Camper]

It is a translation of the copyrighted & published work "Amiga Hardware Reference Manual", English to Verilog.

And...

How does that violate copyright?

You are in the U.K. You should know that reverse engineering is perfectly legal in the EU including Holland.

Have you not heard of ReactOS - the Windows clone OS built from the ground up using publicly available documentation.

Haiku
IBM PC Hardware
IBM PC BIOS

etc, etc.

but as a fully commercial project no company could take that risk.

You are wrong.
Are you saying, AMD, Compaq, Dell, Digital Research - none of these are commercial companies?

It's all very well talking rubbish on forums - but sometimes these witterings can add power to the bullies and intimidators like Scamiga Inc.

Look at the AROS name change - totally unnecessary but due in part to uninformed witterings on forums.  :-)

[Colin_Camper]

I agree that the name change was a good thing.

I prefer the new name. It's more aligned with the FSF/GNU/Open tradition now and less with the tradition of empty promises, scams and shady shell games.

I should have used a different example!  :-)

[Colin_Camper]

@alexh

I also know that publication of copyrighted material in translated form is a violation of said copyright.

You obviously have not grasped what Dennis did with verilog or how he used the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual to help achieve this.  :-(

No I'm not.

I imagine you never are wrong.  :-D

they dont copy things 100%, register for register, bit for bit.

Nor did Dennis. Did you even read the minimig thread?

You dont see AMD selling chips with 100% clones of an Intel P4 in them

Of course not. They sell (effectively) 100% software compatible chips just like Dennis produced a reasonable compatible version of the OCS.

I've written many ASIC related patents and worked with many patent lawyers etc.

Patent numbers? No I thought not.  :lol:

I'd be interested what experience you have? Ah.. yeah.. thought so

Twenty five years in commercial electronics and IT. Ah.. yeah.. and I'm not an arrogant {bleep}.  :-)