[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 Just my two cents on 08-Nov-2001 21:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 26 (Amifan): > THe question is: Do they add any walue to OS3.9?
> In other words, is H&P making money with those trailers??
Money or not, piracy is piracy. Especially when you self-proclaim yourself as the major Amiga anti-piracy activist (H&P runs www.amiga-planet.de/nopiracy/).
But if there was no profit, direct or indirect, why did they take what we now added to a list of about 8-10 things people are complaining about, and who knows what else, all without doing it the proper way, i.e. asking and licensing and respecting the law? Are they the new Robin Hood? Are companies like Clonato evil now, because they licensed GIF? I have Amiga Forever here. I will now carefully see what's on the CD, if it is licensed or not. Actually, I will ask Unisys if they have a license for GIF, just to begin with. I want to see clear in this as much too do I think.
Another thing. I think we can all make mistakes. But how we react to these is also one way of how we show who we are. If it is true what the post said about Haage selling and giving out for free Amiga XL at the Pianeta show, and not stopping after they were informed of how it works in Italy, and if it is true that they said that TCP/IP in 3.9 was a mistake, yet they then published it again on XL, and if it is true that on their web site H&P say the GIF royalty exists but it is a "problem", and they blatantly ignore the patent and publish GIF software, than I think this says something about both the company and the people behind it. |
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