[News] Serious allegations about H&P | ANN.lu |
Posted on 08-Nov-2001 14:17 GMT by Christian Kemp | 164 comments View flat View list |
Amigo follows up on serious allegations about H&P and says: "I also just asked Unisys as it says here, and am waiting for a reply. If true, H&P could probably be forced to close."
[ If H&P indeed didn't pay royalties for Unisys' GIF algorithm, they might not be forced to close per se, but if this is indeed true, and Unisys decides to sue, they might have to pay some serious fines. Also note that while this is not in unmoderated, it's highly speculative, unconfirmed and generally should be taken with the usual grain of salt - CK ]
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Posted by Anonymous on 08-Nov-2001 21:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 23 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): > I'm not sure, but I thought there was no
> licence fee due for freeware GIF readers.
That's true in part: a fee/royalty was not always required, but a license was always required.
> No one is on the moral high-ground,
> it's just a part of doing business.
I guess there are many and very different ways of "doing business" then. If you approve of all of them, and you can sleep well at night, then I guess I envy you.
> there were later revisions of GIF handling
> code that did not infringe on the patents
Sure, uncompressed GIF. But nobody uses that.
> This whole licensing issue was some bright
> idea of somebody over at Unisys to extract
> money out of everybody using GIF's etc. on websites.
That's an urban legend. The license is for software, not for GIF _files_ on web sites.
> The fact that the agreement between Chris Wiles was
> supposedly subsequently "terminated" by the authors
> of AmiTCP does not alter that assessment.
So why did David just write that Juergen Haage "agreed by private e-mail that he "did not know" and was "very sorry" and wanted to "find a solution"?
> You're barking up the wrong tree.
May I remind you that this is the tree I and others are barking at:
http://www.amiga-planet.de/nopiracy/
nopiracy@haage-partner.com
Amiga "No Piracy" Campaign
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