Well, apart from all the butthurt that happens here on Amiga.org (which for the most part I chalk up to the general lack of sarcasm awareness or thick skin amongst the english as second or third or fourth language crowd), for the most part I am humored by the railings for or against some issue that was decided years ago. I will be straight up honest - every piece of software on my amigas is pirated. 100%. the original owner should have wiped his drive as I never paid for any of the software on it. I can't be sure that even he did. You point me to a company manufacturing original 3.1 workbench disks and who can demonstrate that they hold intellectual rights to the contents 100% and I'll buy them. Hell, I can't even be sure the 3.1 ROMS I purchased off ebay from some dude in California are even legit - they have some laserprinted sticker on them that anyone could have made and slapped on roms that anyone could have burned. They work it seems, but there is the possibility that dude burned them himself and sold them "illegally." Tell me who I am financially impacting by my piracy and I will cut an apology letter post haste. This is without even touching the whole WHDload games issues. There are some software people I plan to support (a WHDload license; possibly turboprint, assuming I can get the version I "acquired" to demonstrate some usefulness; MorphOS, because I like the look of some mac hardware), and some hardware (NATAMI!! ZORam, Indivision, Deneb for sure...possibly mediator). As for all the rest? I'm sorry, but I would simply be unable to use an amiga today for anything but a desk weight if it wasn't for "abandonware" and "piracy." And if you are truly honest to yourself, there isn't ONE PERSON on this board who stands in lily white purity. Ergo, every time you open your hole to rail against piracy you may as well slap your own face with your own hypocrite hand.
EDIT: To be more specific, this is not directed at Cloanto or AOS4 (had to put that in, because I really don't want assaulted for suggesting that some time in the future I may or may not purchase a MorphOS license). I'm sure AmigaForever is a cool product. And AOS 4 looks like a cool OS as well. Also, not directed at any specific person, as you are all wonderful and special in your own way. Also, no kittens were harmed during this posting...at least not by me or anyone in my vicinity.
