You should educate yourself first.
1. All the Amiga patents have expired by now.
2. AROS contains no AmigaOS source code. This should be obvious just by inspecting the code.
3. Writing code that does the exact same thing as copyrighted code is not illegal.
I appreciate Pentad's message..
It was good information.
He never said any of those patents hadn't expired.
Obviously some (all? 20 years definitely covers all the early Amiga work, 1991 and prior) are expired.
I believe his mentioning of RJ Mical's mouse click was for the purpose of explanation of the difference between patentable and not..
I didn't see any mention of AROS specifically in his message.
As as for your point number 3, illegal? Maybe or maybe not.. IANAL..
Could you be sued (at least in the U.S.) for that? I'm betting you could, depending on how you handled the writing of the code.
I didn't see anything "wrong" in his statement.
He wasn't saying anything specifically was or wasn't violating copyrights and patents.. He was just giving us some information on the concepts.
IMHO
desiv
p.s. Does anyone know if there are any Amiga-related patents younger than 20 years old? AGA stuff?
