[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 Johan Rönnblom on 08-Nov-2001 22:57 GMT | Regarding the AmiTCP/Genesis situation, it's not necessary so simple,
although it probably is quite simple.
Now, if Haage&Partner really did do what could be expected of them to
check that they had the copyrights for Genesis including AmiTCP/IP,
and if Chris Wiles really told them that they got these rights, and
they had good reason to believe him, they might have a case.
However.
I quote from the docs in the Aminet archive of Genesis demo:
»AmiTCP Kernel & Components © 1991-99 Network Solutions
Development Inc«
Did Chris Wiles remove this information when he sold Genesis to H&P?
If so, Wiles might be the person to blame. But I doubt he did. Does
H&P have any kind of evidence that Wiles told them he sold them the
right to a complete TCP/IP stack, including AmiTCP?
If H&P would try to plead ignorance, here's a quote from their
homepage:
"GENESIS is a complete TCP/IP stack (based on AmiTCP) which can
also be used for professional Intranet connections."
Now if it's based on AmiTCP, why didn't they check that they had the
rights to AmiTCP? Didn't they even read the copyright section of the
software they bought? I don't think a court would find that they did
what could reasonably be expected if they didn't.
And in any case, whatever a court might rule, there's no excuse for
treating developers this badly. There are quite a few loopholes I
could use to pirate H&P software quite legally, I guess that's "Fair
game" if we're supposed to accept H&P's standards (and Hyperion's, it
now appears). |
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