Commodore Scotland Under Threat...

[kolla]

Cloanto are not the copyright holders of old Amiga OS, they just have a license to distribute. I would expect that for every copy of Amiga Forever that they sell, some money tickle in the direction of Amiga Inc. OTOH, Amiga Forever also includes an updated and altered kickstart, named kickstart 3.X, which pretty much is an OS 3.9 kickstart - I do wonder what legal rights Cloanto has to sell such an altered kickstart, I highly doubt that it too is coverered the original 1994 or so deal they have.
Oh, and I got my copy of AmigaForever for free from Cloanto, in exchange for linking to them from my site, and I assume, from my involvement in back2roots back in the days. :-)

[kolla]

Ok I would support your on that part of it, if the Roms and Workbench where not legally for sale any where then I would support and understand you position. Simple fact they are.

What I don't like is the part where they (or their minions) prevent updated ROM images from being distributed, or prevent people from selling updated kickstart chips (like Cosmos want to do), and I also question their legal rights to distribute modified and updated ROM images themselves (the 3.X) kickstart.

As for AmigaForever, the value of that package is really not in the kickstarts and OS images, but in all the extras, videos etc. I never used any of the software on those DVDs/CDs.