Amiga USB

[mboehmer_e3b]

The OS (3.9) doesn't have any support  for usb. Someone sell an usb card but with demo drivers. What a good offer! Other drivers not working with this card.

Then ask this hardware vendor why he refuses to allow OpenPCI support... OpenPCI has USB lowlevel drivers which work marvellous on other PCI solutions, and they are for free now (Guido, please correct me if I'm wrong).

Someone else want money for an usb driver. For a driver?
But money for a driver is a really sad story.

Yes, sad indeed. There are people out there who spend some months on developing drivers and a complete USB stack, spend money on development and test hardware, and finally they want to get some money for their work?
Indeed, those guys are crazy in their head.


Use your brain and check yourself: a PCI USB2 NEC card costs around 5EUR. A relabled USB2 NEC card from a certain Amiga company costs 64EUR. Let the fancy sticker cost 1 EUR, so you have a bargain of 58EUR. 58EUR for just relabeling a PCI card, writing a new SubvendorID into the PCI card's EEPROM (to make it a dongle) and writing the lowlevel driver (which any hardware needs anyhow).

Registering Poseidon costs 38EUR, which includes all the support, updates and all IP to make your relabled PCI card doing more than dissipating heat.

Got the point? Do you think this is a balanced situation?

And one more options for piracy. For a software you have to pay, but you have the rights to get software support too.

If you want software support for your board, please contact the manufacturer of it. He made promises, and he's the one to keep them, not other third parties.
As I heard this manufacturer has an own USB stack "almost" working, so why don't you wait for this to be released?

Indeed, sometimes I get sad of people's attitude regarding IP and rights.

Michael

P.S.: I guess some people will start bashing me again, as I dared to express my personal point of view - enjoy it.

[mboehmer_e3b]

I don't advocate anything, but if someone has no legal means to obtain some software and has exhausted all of the alternatives then I can't blame them if they decide to use a copy instead, but I'd hope that if the product became available again then they would buy it.

Your attitude smells like a dead fish... do you have the same attitude to other goods, too, like this?

"I have no legal means to obtain a car and have exhausted all of the alternatives. So I have stolen one now, and I use it, but be sure the day I can legally buy it I will spend my money to the guy I have stolen the car from."

If you answer is "yes" then please consider it again. But this time imagine that you are the guy who's car has been stolen by someone with the attitude you seem to advertise here.

So, do you advocate Hodge's attidute towards the Mediator and it's users?

Don't point to others and complain while in the same posting you admit doing piracy.

Michael