[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 413 of 629 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Samface on 27-Apr-2002 17:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 408 (Frodon): No, I'm sorry but read what the text says and read it carefully:
"As long as it's going to be for personal use, then I have the right to make a non-infringing ROM of that program (Sony v. Universal) and run it on my non-infringing emulator (Sony v. Connectix)."
Now, let's examine what that means:
What's a non-infringing ROM? Is a copy of the AmigaROM infringing? Well, as many vital parts of the AmigaOS is contained within it, I'd say it is. What he means by a non-infringing ROM in this case is a game which the user has purchased and is licensed to use any way he wants as long as it's personal use. This, however, does not apply to a system's BIOS/ROM.
Then consider this; what's a non-infringing emulator? Well, as you can see it refers to the Sony vs. Connectix case which Sony lost due to the fact that Bleem! (the PSX emulator by Connectix) did NOT make use of the Playstation's system BIOS/ROM. This was decisive to the entire case. |
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