Distribution Licence For Workbench...

[mongo]

Well thanks for that but who is Bill and where can I find details on Amiga.com, don't want to go emailing some guy called Bill (could be the janitor for all I know) and I'd like to research Amiga.com first...

That would be Bill McEwen. I'm pretty sure Amiga Inc can't afford a janitor, so you don't have to worry about that.

Just checked and a search for Amiga.com, took me to the AmigaInc site, I've contacted them twice and never received one reply...

Maybe they're not interested in doing business with you. All things considered, I'm not exactly surprised.

[TheBilgeRat]

This is why Amiga never made it fully into the digital age - once all the amiga users got online, everyone found out what raging douchebags they all were.  Some of you make xboxlive halo players look like intelligent individuals.

[Franko]

Maybe they're not interested in doing business with you. All things considered, I'm not exactly surprised.

As I've already said I "generally" respect our posts but for whatever reason you have for making ones like that then it's no skin off my nose and I won't be dragged into some petty squabbles with you...

They may not be interested in doing business as you say but it wont help them if they turn out to be the copyright owners and they take me to court and I can prove to the Judge that I had indeed done my best to contact them...

[koaftder]

Sorry haven't a clue what your trying to say, that email I received turned out to be a fake, so your point is...

I'm just pointing out your childish behavior. You can claim what ever you like. Go ahead and put up those disk images. You will be forced again to either take them down or remove the link to your site in your signature and refrain from linking to it in the forum. The 18 pages in that thread details exactly what happened. Personally I hope you throw them up, stick to your guns and get banned.

[Franko]

I'm just pointing out your childish behavior. You can claim what ever you like. Go ahead and put up those disk images. You will be forced again to either take them down or remove the link to your site in your signature and refrain from linking to it in the forum. The 18 pages in that thread details exactly what happened. Personally I hope you throw them up, stick to your guns and get banned.

The disk images were never taken down in the first place they were simply moved elsewhere and have been available all this time...

Childish behaviour, that's rich coming from someone with the mind of a 3 year old... :rolleyes:

I will indeed be putting them up and there will no legit reason for banning me for doing so... so dream on...

[jj]

Are we now expected to listen to self-righteous babbling by a few people who seem to think that the Amiga will somehow be 'damaged' by Franko making WB disks easily available ?

Its not about people thinking Franko will damage the Amiga Its more about him not having the legal right to do so, no mater if you agree with it or not. Its not about him making the disks freely available, they already are , its about him being a pain as always

[Franko]

Its not about people thinking Franko will damage the Amiga Its more about him not having the legal right to do so, no mater if you agree with it or not. Its not about him making the disks freely available, they already are , its about him being a pain as always

Take some Asprins (preferably about 200) and your pain will go away permanently...

[commodorejohn]

Since "Amiga Inc." in its many incarnations, moved from 1.3 through 3.1 on to versions 3.5 and 3.9, it shouldn't come as a shock that they're not spending their money supporting older versions just as most other software companies don't spend their money supporting old versions of software.

I don't demand that they spend any money or make any effort to support them - but if they're not going to make older versions of the program (with significant functional differences) available in some form other than bundled with somebody else's unrelated product, I'm not much interested in hearing people whine about piracy. It's like the kid on the playground who's been given a cool toy, but he doesn't actually care about it and the only good he derives from it is getting to go "neener neener, I've got it and you can't have it!" to all the kids who actually want to play with it.

[zipper]

Take some Asprins (preferably about 200) and your pain will go away permanently...

Even less may be enough, its LD50 (rat) is 200mg/kg meaning 32 500mg tablets may kill you (80 kg) with 50% probability. So 200 might be overkill....

[Franko]

Even less may be enough, its LD50 (rat) is 200mg/kg meaning 32 500mg tablets may kill you (80 kg) with 50% probability. So 200 might be overkill....

I know... but I just wanted to make sure it did the job and not have him complaining a week later that all he ended up with was some internal bleeding and a weeks stay in hospital...

[mongo]

They may not be interested in doing business as you say but it wont help them if they turn out to be the copyright owners and they take me to court and I can prove to the Judge that I had indeed done my best to contact them...

It makes no difference if you contacted them or not. They have no obligation to do business with you or to even respond to you.

This is what you seem to fail to understand. They own it, what they do with it is completely up to them, and they owe you nothing.

[Fraggle1]

@ Franko

You're welcome :-)

"and not be bothered with they armchair copyright/IP wannabe lawyers who's only interest in the Amiga is posting absolute blatant gobshite on these forums..."

The problem is lack of Amiga User Groups, where you met & made friends with other Amiga users, as opposed to here, where people can talk utter bullshit without risk of a 'Gleska Kiss'. ;-)

"Just checked and a search for Amiga.com, took me to the AmigaInc site, I've contacted them twice and never received one reply..."

I wonder if AmigaInc will be more eager to get in touch with you after you put the WB discs on your site ? - A few years ago I heard they tried to sue someone in this community for a large 5 figure sum just for having a couple of dozen "Boing Ball" case badges made & selling them for £1 each ! I assume AI had some lawyers bills to pay. ;-)

I'm confident you'll be equal to them, whatever they say, lol ;-)

[jj]

what dont people understand .   If i contacted microsoft and asked if i could put copies of win 95 on my website, and microsoft didnt reply so i put them up anyway an d get sued i wouldnt have a leg to stand on.  

JUST BECAUSE YOU CANT GET HOLD OF THE OWNERS OR THEY NOT REPLYING DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE LEGAL RIGHT TO HOST THE SOFTWARE.

[Cool_amigaN]

Makes me sick, seeing people, urging users to pick a "replacement" OS while passing by easily the fact that there is no available source to buy/install/use the proper OS, thus you are forced to do so.

Makes me even sicker to see that it's the same people that have involved in the past to various flame wars and now baptize AROS=AOS68k.

The community cannot even unite to claim PD of 25 years old OS.

Still, I would like to see how exactly will AROS perform on a stock A500 and make comparisons with 1.3.

[paul1981]

@ Franko

I wonder if AmigaInc will be more eager to get in touch with you after you put the WB discs on your site ? - A few years ago I heard they tried to sue someone in this community for a large 5 figure sum just for having a couple of dozen "Boing Ball" case badges made & selling them for £1 each ! I assume AI had some lawyers bills to pay. ;-)

I believe I have one of those. It's a lovely badge as well.  If they are so rare, then maybe I can even double or quadruple my money! :roflmao:

[commodorejohn]

JUST BECAUSE YOU CANT GET HOLD OF THE OWNERS OR THEY NOT REPLYING DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE LEGAL RIGHT TO HOST THE SOFTWARE.

So it doesn't give you the legal right. So what? Who cares? The law isn't the highest good.