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Posted on 15-Apr-2002 13:27 GMT by Morka | 510 comments View flat View list |
This is email from Thomas Frieden about AOS4.0 and Pegasos board.
Odosielate¾: Thomas Frieden <ThomasF@hyperion-entertainment.com>
Adresát: morka@zoznam.sk
Predmet: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 on Pegasos
Hi,
morka@zoznam.sk wrote:
>Hi. I have one problem. I want buy Pegasos but at today AOS4.0 not run on this board.
Say who ? I thought it was already said: We do want to support the Pegasos board. It's firmly planned. Unfortunately, we haven't received a developer board yet, but if we ever get one, OS4 will run on the Pegasos.
Regards,
Thomas Frieden
Senior Developer, Hyperion Entertainment
ThomasF@hyperion-entertainment.com
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com
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Posted by Micrononymous on 16-Apr-2002 00:55 GMT | Wow, been away the whole day and came back to a whopping 272 posts! You see?! Now this is what message boards
are all about! Bitching, fighting, arguing, sometimes intelligent debate, and most of all DRAMA! Love it.
Anyway, I have a question. Is AROS a commercial product? WinUAE by itself? You see, MorphOS is intended to be
sold commercially but will not pay Amiga Inc. a dime. That's what raises the red flag. Now, if WinUAE is a commercial product and Amiga Inc. does not send cease and desist letters to the people selling it,
then they are making a big mistake.
Also, note that it doesn't matter if MorphOS wins or loses in court. If Amiga Inc. has the funds set aside for a pricey court battle, and Ralph Schmidt does not, even if he wins, he will be out of money and unable to continue his business. He would have to sell off MorphOS to Amiga Inc. just to break even, I'm guessing.
Ralph would have to countersue Amiga Inc. (and win) just to keep from paying his legal fees out of pocket.
If he releases the MorphOS product for free, then I don't think he'd get sued, but then, would he just give MorphOS away for free?!
When Sony tried to block Connectix from selling the Playstation software emulator, Sony succeeded blocking its distribution then later lost that legal battle, but they brought a patent infringement lawsuit against Connectix. Well, last year, this happened: http://www.connectix.com/company/press_cvgs_mar1401.html
So, Sony actually won the war. Connectix got a moral victory and made some money, but no longer ships a Playstation emulator. Both of them look good, but Sony comes out on top.
And, yes, yes, if AROS ever tries to sell their product WITHOUT paying Amiga Inc. a license fee, I do believe they will get sued too.
Folks, the only way to protect copyrights and trademarks and intellectual property is to use hardcore legal means. It's just the way things are. Like I said earlier, I used to work for United Media, a licensing company. They control the likenesses of all the Peanuts characters and Dilbert and Nancy. Two incidents taught me a lot about how this business works. First one, in 1995, Dilbert was becoming popular and the company launched the Dilbert Zone which showed a new comic strip daily (7 days old from the newspaper). Well, the site grew very quickly and many people downloaded the strips and put them on their own web sites. Some people copied Dogbert graphics and put them on their web site. Those "fans" were awfully surprised to get cease and desist letters. They assumed that the images on the web site made them public domain. Nope. If you take the funny papers, clip out a comic strip and photocopy it, you are committing copyright infringement, same goes for the web and stuff you see there. If you take the same strip you cut out and post it on your cubicle wall, you are also infringing, but since few people would see it and it's not getting a lot of attention, and since the company's lawyers are not searching cubicles in other companies, then it slides by. Second incident, local East Village band puts up flyers for a show they were doing at a bar the following weekend. It used the comic strip character Nancy. Just a letter-sized piece of typing paper with a really cheap and sloppy ad for the band at the bar and this photocopy of Nancy. You figure this thing will disappear with the rain in a couple weeks. Well, one of the employees saw it, ripped it off a phone pole, and guess what! You got it, the band was tracked down by the lawyers and ordered to tear down all the flyers they had put up.
Lesson? When it comes to their livelihood, people have no sense of humor. You threaten their means of making money, they will come at you with whatever they have under their belt. If Fleecy is not bluffing, and Amiga Inc. do indeed have a legal cash stash set aside, they will go for it. If you were Ralph Schmidt, what would you do? |
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