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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 1Remco Weg30-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 2Mememememmmeeeee30-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 3Anonymous30-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 4Nian30-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
Amiga threatens Rainer Benda : Comment 5 of 21ANN.lu
Posted by Remco Weg on 30-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
My opinion is that every Amiga owner should be able to get access to Workbench
and Kickstart disks that where ORIGINALY supplied when they bought their Amiga.
(I personally made DMS files of my original disks just in case). If you buy
a secondhand Amiga without Workbench and/or Kickstart, you should be able
to get this software somewhere for free.
Therefore it's my opinion that Workbench should be freely available untill version
3.0. And Kickstart disks to version 2.x. So, Amiga Inc. should place these files
on their FTP Server. It's the least they can do to support the Classic Amiga.
AmigaOS 3.1 is included in AmigaOS 3.5.
Kickstart FILES are a complete different thing. Kickstart FILES make it possible
to run Amiga emulators on computers (like Amiga Forever and UAE). Making these
files available for downloading makes it possible to run an Amiga emulator
without ever buying an original Amiga (or ROM's) !!
Thus the Kickstart FILES are the key point here. Workbench (or AmigaOS) is simply
worthless without the Kickstart FILES. However, Amiga owners allready have a
Kickstart ROM. For these owners Workbench should be downloadable to replace
damaged or missing disks. Because owning an Amiga entitles you to at least the
Workbench version which was originaly supplied with the Amiga. Because that
is what you paid for when you bought the Amiga (even secondhand).
To be short: He must remove the Kickstart FILES. And Amiga Inc. should place the other
stuff on their own FTP Server to support the existing Amiga base (and then also the
other stuff can be removed from the site).
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Comment 15Janne Sirén01-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 16Ben01-May-2000 22:00 GMT
Comment 17Christian Kemp01-May-2000 22:00 GMT
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