[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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Posted by gz on 26-Apr-2002 13:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 256 (Samface): >>If Phase5 had a license is irrelevant as a license simply can't just be passed on to someone else. The license Phase5 had died with them.
I know, this is not what I was saying. I was replying to a post by you where you said that MOS ppl should have acquired a licence for their project from the start and not just relying that it's ok for them to do it even if AI didn't seem to have a problem with them.
As you can see they actually did acquire a license for amigaos back then so they could start a ppc native os project for amigas. I know they fucked up by not approaching AI again after p5 and gateway deals went out of the window, but as you were thinking that AI don't have any part in this, is where I think you are wrong.
AI HAS a part in this too as they should have contacted the MOS team after they bought rights for the brand from gateway, and give them a clear legal status on their behalf instead of letting MOS be untill they noticed they couldn't ally with them. I believe AI did this on purpose hoping that they could watch how the mos project evolved and if it would survive far enough they could try and benefit out of it by licencing mos as THE amigaOS for ppc (ie. it would have been "OS4") As things didn't go AI's way they have now infected relations with the mos team and therefore a solution is hard to find.
So you see things aren't always that simple which I was trying to illustrate to you with my metaphor example. In the MOS issue both parties have a responsibility and both are right and wrong in different things. AI is right to defend their brand and rom's but wrong in not taking part with the legal issue a long time ago. MOS is wrong in being too proud and not seeing how it could benefit evryone if they would just sign a deal, but then on the other hand they are right defending the years and years of hard work they have put into their project without EVER receiving any help from AI for it. AI stepped in suddenly and demands control of their project. who would swallow that without taking an issue with it?
Also to reply on your post where you said that people who want to make a difference should join the police or take up on politics... Well I wonder what the author of prayer mp3 player Tamara Cjetinski would have to say about that.
Are you saying that if she want's to make a difference in her country she should apply to a taskforce or become a politician? Her hometown was bombarded by same people who live in that country with her. On top of that, the people who were supposed to be there helping (nato) bombarded them too. Would these things have stopped if she would think like you do? Not nececcarily by a longshot.
Things aren't black and white in this world and thinking black and white won't work because of that. We could very well see that in the sept.11 attacks in usa. Or better yet with the things ongoing between Israeli and the Palestinians. Can you tell me which one is the bad guy in there? Should they all aply to become politicians?
Wasn't communism originally a very nice and humane idea? Yes. Did it work in the real world? No. It didn't. It became quite the opposite because the world and people has rainbow colours instead of just 2.
Making things too simple is not a good idea, which is what you did when you were giving analogies like that.
To conclude things I seriously hope you didn't call me a child when you told me to "Do like a child and learn from the story of Robin Hood." I'm sure we could save the world if we all did that. |
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