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Posted on 01-May-2000 09:12 GMT by Christian Kemp21 comments
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Ralph Ewers wrote in to inform me of a message in the German AC-Forum. Aparently, Cloanto contacted Amiga Inc. on the subject of Rainer's homepage, where he stores, among others, support files that were originally part of the former ComBo (Commodore mailbox). While Rainer had/has, among others, copies of most Workbench disks on his site, many German Amiga users can certify that he did this purely to support the Amiga and provide backup copies of files everybody should have anyway... definately not your usual warez site, and therefore it shouldn't be treated as such, in my opinion. Here's Rainer's first posting, in German:

Amiga Inc. holt aus....

.....nach Jahren des Tiefschlafs ist Cloanto zu Amiga Int. gegangen und hat sich doch tatsächlich über die Files meiner Webseite "beschwert".....Erklärungen haben nichts geholen :-), nun kam die Mail von Amiga Inc., die Files zu entfernen, der Internet-Provider sei bereits informiert und wenn ich es dann immernoch nicht tue, würde man rechtliche Schritte einleiten.....auweia.....oder auch "good morning, Amercia".....oder war das Vietnam ?......

In a later posting, he said:

.....mich "stört" eigentlich wieder nur die Art und Weise. Im entsprechenden Teil meiner Story hab ich ja auf die Umstände hingewiesen, die überhaupt dazu geführt haben, warum die Sachen per Box/Web verfügbar gemacht wurden. Ich werde auf rechtlicher Seite sowieso klären lassen, wie es sich damit verhält (ich denke ähnlich Patenten), wenn niemand seine Patentrechte über Jahre "verteidigt". Gary Peake meint nun nach Jahren den Hammer rausholen zu müssen, inzwischen stehen im Verteiler seiner Mail(s) neben Petro, T-Online und Bill McEwen. Ich denke, sie überziehen arg.

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Comment 13Gabriele Favrin01-May-2000 22:00 GMT
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Comment 17Christian Kemp01-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Amiga threatens Rainer Benda : Comment 18 of 21ANN.lu
Posted by Ralph Schmidt on 01-May-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 17 (Christian Kemp):
Fact is that CBM put the WB disks on the Combo box(their official
support mailbox for every amiga user). A service the provider of
the CBM Combo box only continued.
Fact is that Pedro gave his blessing about the offering of these
files which have no usage for non Amiga owners anyway.
Fact is that every Amigauser could get the WB disks from his
dealer to fix his system if his disks were broken.
They arne`t really useful either if they hadn`t the matching rom
which is part of their amiga hw.
And now some hypocrats have the guts to disallow something which
was official policy for about 15 years(dealers installing WB
disksets) is ridiculous.
This has nothing to do with piracy at all.
Maybe it's time to really determine who has the copyright for
the WB disks...Amiga Inc ?..really ?..then i would like to see
the contract with the Arp guys from Software Distillery for most
of the CLI tools and William S. Hawes for Arexx.
Not to speak of other parts whose heritage i`m not aware of.
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