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Offline Franko

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Re: Legal issue of Kickstart ROMs
« on: August 23, 2010, 11:31:52 PM »
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I think with Amiga Inc. and silly billy now dissapeared, its about time they get declared free. If anyone has a complete set of roms I would be happy to host them. If someone threatens to sue me, I'll let everyone know.
 
Legally...
I mean any legal protection for those has to be expired by now, since they are so old. They, along with the source code to all amiga os, especially os3.1+ should just be left to the remaining amiga community.
 
While I appreciate what cloanto and others do, its kind of ridiculous that someone is still trying to make money off of 15 and 20 year old rom images
or 15 and 20 year old operating systems.
 
Just my humble opinion....
 
Steven


I agree wholeheartedly and applaud your stance on this issue. :cool:

For those of us not interested in the overblown requirements for OS4 or for running an emulator, then any company still trying to make a quick buck from KS rom images and holding the Amiga community to ransom should not be supported or encouraged. :)
 

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Re: Legal issue of Kickstart ROMs
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2010, 09:35:45 AM »
What a complete load of utter bullS&^t is being bandied about here, reckon almost everyone owns a TV but do you think it's illegal or immoral that TV manufacturers don't pay the estate of John Logie Baird any money for making the things, no course you don't, or what about your phone does the estate of Alexander Graham Bell receive money from telephone manufacturers, no of course it dosen't.

And before any smartarse tries to jump in with no they didn't invent those, it was such & such who did, well thats a whole other argument.

Even when the patents for these things were still in force those guys never became rich of them, but it didn't stop whole industries sprouting up & producing the things and making sackloads of cash of something that they didn't own or invent, yet I'll bet all you guys taking the moral high ground use the damn things.

The simple fact is any company that still sells amiga rom images and claims the right to be able to do so, would never be able to prove in a court of law that they do. Due to the simple fact that the shoddy way in which all the various company's that have raped the amiga legacy have left so many holes and grey areas as to who actually has the rights to what, that it would never be able to stand up in a court of law.

So stop whining about something that will never be proven one way or the other and let someone who is willing to distribute them for free do so and if your morals are so high then pay a company that has no legal right to charge you for them if you wish, its your choice, just don't try and force it on everyone else.
 

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Re: Legal issue of Kickstart ROMs
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2010, 10:38:12 PM »
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Look, if anybody wants to download Kickstart ROMS / Workbench (up to 3.1), then go right ahead.  Nobody is going to put you in jail.  Simple as that.  I doubt CBM would give a shit.

3.5/3.9/4.0/4.1 is a different matter though - at least you can still buy them from the people who made them.


Tensions post sums up the whole subject best, :)

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Please don't continue posting on this thread if you don't understand the difference between a patent and a copyright. (LOL)

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I do know the difference between a patent & a copyright, I just went of on a bit of a rant their at the so called moral majority and their holier than thou views that piss me off... :)