[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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Comment 1 | Graham | | 08-Nov-2001 13:25 GMT |
Comment 2 | Graham | | 08-Nov-2001 13:37 GMT |
Comment 3 | Anonymous | | 08-Nov-2001 13:50 GMT |
Comment 4 | Anonymous | | 08-Nov-2001 14:05 GMT |
Comment 5 | Christian Kemp | | 08-Nov-2001 14:06 GMT |
Comment 6 | Graham | | 08-Nov-2001 14:13 GMT |
Comment 7 | Christian Kemp | | 08-Nov-2001 14:16 GMT |
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Serious allegations about H&P : Comment 8 of 164 | ANN.lu |
Posted by David Gerber on 08-Nov-2001 14:33 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (Christian Kemp): > Besides, it's kinda ironic, weren't H&P advocating a strict no-piracy policy,
> but yet they *allegedly* did not licence the GIF writing algorithm for
> ArtEffect.
It's indeed ironic. After the AmiTCP problem with "OS" 3.9, Juergen Haage agreed by private e-mail that he "did not know" and was "very sorry" and wanted to "find a solution". There were then attempts to try to find a solution but it didn't work out.
Case closed? No. One year later, H&P does it *again* and distributes AmiTCP *yet again* with their Amiga"OS" XL package.
I consider this as morally inacceptable and a serious insult against the developers of AmiTCP.
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