The following is of course,my opnion but ought to be obvious:
The ridiculous extensions and other greed enacted by the U.S. Congress on behalf of some big entertainment corporations such as Disney have stifled innovation for the average citizen.
At a time when software,best selling books, and movies' life cyles was measured in less than a decade Congress extended copyrights nearly a century,allowed going back and copyrighting works that had fallen into the public domain under the laws then extant. If that wasan't ex post facto, what is?
But under current American law if I owned Amiga OS rights ,I could insist that no one be allowed to use any of it without meeting my conditions,no matter how greedy or even ridiculous. I could evn decide that I will not permit the ungrateful public to use it at all.And sue anyone who tried to do so.
And American law is particularly odious if it prohibits the user from making adjustments to a product so it will better meet his needs. Yet American laws in the form of the one-sided EULA software license does just that,and if every law were fully enforced the whole nation would be in jail.
Just too many lawyers.....
IF the very near future sees the release of Amiga OS on a game console /set=top box by a large manufacturer at a reasonable price THEN I will quietly celebrate.
Bill sell a few tens million installs of Amiga OS for Wii or PS3 or similar at $5? a unit and GET IT OUT THERE!
