Legal issue of Kickstart ROMs

[kolla]

Except that the Minimig firmware that people typically use is not capable of using the "encripled" ROMs that come with AmigaForever.

[kolla]

I wonder if the Amiga Forever ROMs are encrypted as part of the agreement to use them or to stop people using them with free UAE.

But you can use them with free UAE, and even the original Minimig firmware. It was later removed to give room for more usefull features

[kolla]

@tone007
OK, we'll let you deal with all the people who mess up their systems trying to set up big bisks with big partitions etc.

[kolla]

Plugging in a new set of kickstart ROMs _is_ the quick workaround.
Cloanto distributes a modified kickstart that pretty much is a OS3.9 kickstart (since when did they get permission to distribute modified kickstarts anyways?), why don't they offer EPROMs with it on, I wonder.

[kolla]

Somebody owns the rights. It doesn't matter who it is. What matters is that you don't own the rights. When you can prove that you own the rights, you can distribute the ROM images any way you see fit.

So by this logic, one could ask Cloanto and whoever to prove their rights.

[kolla]

Lawyers are easier to find than programmers.