[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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AFUA visited Thendic-France : Comment 369 of 629 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Frodon on 27-Apr-2002 13:16 GMT | In reply to Comment 354 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): Hello,
Ben Hermans said:
> UAE IS illegal in the EU, there is no doubt about that.
> EU copyright law only allows you to make copies for very specific reasons,
> none of which apply.
> (One such reason is to make a back-up but since you can't backup hardware,
> this doesn't apply)
> Hence you are not allowed to copy a ROM even if you own it and dump it on a disk
Sorry but I don't understand the problem here? UAE isn't delivered with any Kickstart ROM or AmigaOS. It is clearly specified in the doc when you download it that you have to have an Amiga and have legally owned AmigaOS to use UAE. UAE itself is not illegal in hat point. What is illegal is if someone use it with a pirated Kickstart ROM or/and AmigaOS.
> AmigaForever is different of course because Cloanto licensed the Kickstart for > distribution with their product.
Of course so they can distribute the Kickstart ROM and OS in addition contrary to UAE which desn't include them to stay legal.
> The main thrust of the argument against MorphOS is not the decompilation issue
> but the unfair and parasitic competition argument.
Interesting to hear that ;-) Even Lindows can't be sued for that reason and in my opinion to respect the liberty of competition law all OSes should come with complete APIs documentation to allow others to make compatible OSes and to compete in term of quality and features and not of compatibility. For me don't allowing that is a kind of anti-competive action. I know that actually all the OSes are not doing this (except open sourced ones) and because of that it's commonly admitted to be "normal". It's just an opinion but I think if the Informatic world have respected that he would be a lot better today.
> Marketing and advertising a compatible product by reference to the original
> constitutes unfair and parasitic competition.
Because of my opinion I told you below, this shouldn't be the case in a intelligent and free competitive informatic world. That's one of the things that should change in the informatic world.
> No matter how MorphOS was developed (by decompilation or otherwise) as long as > that's what they are doing, it will remain illegal.
Maybe in this stupid actual informatic world :-(
But at least they don't lie. MorphOS allow to run Amiga softwares.
And so if I take you in the first degree i'd say that UAE constitute a parasitic compitor and Fellow too and Amithlon too... If we always take the things in the first degree we can make a billion of lawsuits in this world ;)
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