Is Eyetech pirating the A1200 Magic Pack software?

@Targhan,

Thank you for the clarification...  I stand corrected on the originators of the Magic Pack.  I was, in fact, working to verify that when you responded.

Wayne

[reflect]

I know about 10 people that has AmigaOne fairly close to me, and no one has gotten this MagicPack along with their A1. These people span over the entire Scandinavia...
Perhaps this was a giveaway for this reporter only, or could you interpret his review as it was actually his own MagicPack (I haven't read the report yet)?

[poweramiga2002]

What a load of old trollup you would probably find that all the ppl purchasing the A1 had previously purchased the A1200 magic pack so are realy only getting a second copy of the software anyway

[Tigger]

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The Unisys patent on GIF has run out as far as I am aware.
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Only in the US it has about 10 more months in most other countries.
   -Tig

[Wain]

The patent on LZW compression via unisys expired on June 20, 2003

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3028

[Jose]

"ou might consider that for the people who slaved away writing the software that was included in the bundle, for many it was business, and in business you follow certain rules or you get sued. This isn't the playground where you just run off and sulk (or break their nose, which ever you prefer) if someone breaks the rules, if a person, business or other legal entity breaks the law then you are entitled to recrimination."

I agree but that wasn't what I was tring to tell. My point was that this seems (hopefully not) as being used to atack Eyetech. It 's a rumour, and rumous have their effects, wheter true or not.
There seem to be (from other posts) other stores selling the magic pack, seperately, but the title of the thread is " Eyetech pirating software"....

but the title of the thread is " Eyetech pirating software"....

The title of the thread is " Eyetech pirating software?"

There is a MAJOR difference in those two phrases.

One is a statement fact, the title of the thread is a question.


Won't the people who wrote the software already have been paid for the OEM bundles anyway?

The way I see it, is it's just the same as me putting my BatPack software onto a CD, and then selling the CD along with the original disks and manuals.  For arguments sake lets say Eyetech have 2000 Magic Packs that they have paid for.  If they only sell 2000 of these CD's and never sell anymore of them, then they have done nothing wrong.  If however, they sell more than 2000, then that's a different story.

[Snuden]

I think you should stop whining, and pay attention.

I'm not whining. I'm just tired of all these people spreading nothing but unsubstantiated rumors and FUD. Which this is as we don't know anything about whether or not these people have a deal with Eyetech.

And before you think I'm wierd, let me say this. Paul Nolan, Cloanto, etc, likely don't care that their ANCIENT software is getting shoved into this deal (likely, not 100%), but I promise you Unisys is quite dangerous about .gif!!!

LOL. The gif/lzw patent isn't valid anymore. Perhaps you should pay more attention.

[Mad-Matt]

I hardly think it matters since the respective programe authers have all ready been paid. Theres only so many licence numbers for the magic packs so once all the licence cards have been sent out the original floppy media becomes redundent anyway.

now if the licence cards were being photocopied and issued out with the software bundles, then things would be different but somehow i cant see em doing that .

[amigamad]

Uae is setup by eyetech i have not installed it on my a1, so i dont know what is on the cd setup.i do have a boxed a1200 magic pack but i would not use the old software that was with it .I have photogenics 5 so 1.2  does not interest me. i know the documentation with the a1 says the roms are licensed but i m not sure about any other software.?

[Herewegoagain]

Don't get me in the middle of this. FarQuad (not me, so stop whining at me in PM) made a valid observation, and raised a legitimate question.. I am asking the software authors about the status of their licenses for the Magic Pack software which is being distributed on the AmigaOne (a wholly different machine than originally licensed for)

While I understand what you are saying Wayne, and I agree to an extent.  This is no way to handle the question at hand.  Farquad should have addressed the issue directly with Eyetech and/or the software authors.  Other wise, it looks like he is on a witch hunt and out to give an additional black eye to the Amiga/Hyperion/Eyetech team.  And the title of this thread should be changed to not indicate a negative bias toward Eyetech (he could have easily called it "What are the licensing terms of the Magic Pack?".   You know full well how this will get twisted and stick into peoples minds against Eyetech.

[Jose]

"The title of the thread is " Eyetech pirating software?"

There is a MAJOR difference in those two phrases."

Ok,  my mistake.

[Blomberg]

This thread is such a load of bulls##t, you'd almost think it was the work of The FUD Master himself.  ;-)

[Jose]

To be fair you'll have to post a thread "Eyetech Not pirating software ?"  in the end :-D

[Calen]

Blom:
 your avatar is even more disturbing now, didnt think that be possible :-)

@topic
next please.

[Doobrey]

Snuden wrote:
LOL. The gif/lzw patent isn't valid anymore. Perhaps you should pay more attention.

LOL..maybe you should pay more attention...;-)
Their patent for the US and several other countries expired this year, but it`s still valid in the UK and a few other European countries..

Found this on /.
"The U.S. LZW patent expires June 20, 2003, the counterpart Canadian patent expires July 7, 2004, the counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expire June 18, 2004, and the Japanese counterpart patents expire June 20, 2004. "