Amitopia interview Amiga Inc regarding MorphOS

[seer]

"Defender of the faith" and then a pic of Clinton below the text.

and

from: Monica Lewinsky's house

Hmm.....

[redrumloa]

Eatin aint cheatin
 :-P

[whabang]

Teehee!

[redrumloa]

hehehe....yeeeeeesh.. Maybe I should add a inflamatory pic of clintler to my sig... Otherwise new users may really think I am a Clinton supporter..scary stuff :-o

[Agafaster]

Defender of the Faith

Judas Priest Album ?!

[bhoggett]

That wouldn't be in the spirit of things. You're meant to look like a Clinton supporter as pennance for your sins.
 :-)

[GadgetMaster]

@Red

Maybe I should add a inflamatory pic of clintler to my sig... Otherwise new users may really think I am a Clinton supporter..scary stuff

I dont think it would really work because your is only displayed on forum posts not on news comments

[anarchic_teapot]

Kronos wibbled:

It's OUR (the users) market

Wrong. A user (buyer) may be in the market, but that market does not belong to him. Any more than the shop you go into to buy sweeties belongs to you.

[hnl_dk]

Have you ever imagined the creation of MorphOS?

I have :idea:



 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

PS: Coder do you recognizethat hand?

[HeUnique]

I hardly think so..

The MorphOS team got until September 1st to either sign a deal with Amiga Inc. or have a cease-and-desist order from Amiga.

MOS wants to go to a trial? it's their right, although I hardly see MOS wins, due to the simple reason - Amiga owns the code, and any patents are owned by Gateway - so if Amiga looses, Gateway will sue..

Hetz (HeUnique)

[jdiffend]

There are problems on both sides of this if it goes to court.

1. The disassembly of MorphOS won't match the disassembly of the AmigaOS68k.
2. Changing a program by 25% makes it eligible for a new copywrite... that doesn't refer to an individual subroutine but the work as a whole.
3. If (for example) you have a task of stepping through a linked list to find something the algorythm is likely to be the same or very similar no matter who implements it.  It's just the way it's done and is an obvious implementation and arguing they stole the code because their's is similar doesn't mean a lot.
4. Reverse engineering a product to make a compatible one IS legal to some extent.
5. All of the above is subject to interpretation and the argument can go either way depending on how a judge sees it.

[GadgetMaster]

Many judges aren't that technically minded. They rely on others to explain how all this stuff works.

A wrong interpretaion could lead to a wrong decision.

I have first hand knowledge of this as the company that I worked for was taken to court (UK Small claims Court) over an alleged faulty CD Writer.

I was a witness on behalf of our company and the other side was using an independant technician.

Before any decision was made the independant techie and I were trying our best to explain to the Judge how a CD writer worked. No easy task when the judge hadn't even used a computer before.

[AmiGR]

Bah, there are people MUCH closer to MorphOS than
Kronos.

[AmiGR]

I can guess it. Let them prove that in court.

[Coder]

@HeUnique

The MorphOS team got until September 1st to either sign a deal with Amiga Inc. or have a cease-and-desist order from Amiga.

I am afraid that the stuff that Amiga wanted them to sue about is taken care of by the MOS team. Maybe there is still some left that is illegal or is sueable but I am afraid this will be a case that drags on forever in court. And that will do no good.

Coder

[Alkemyst]

"I am afraid that the stuff that Amiga wanted them to sue about is taken care of by the MOS team. Maybe there is still some left that is illegal or is sueable but I am afraid this will be a case that drags on forever in court. And that will do no good."

well i  dont give a damn the fact if they did take stuff out to stay legal that means they are untrust worthy in the first place with all the crap with it was all coded safe from the start claims.