[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 Samface on 27-Apr-2002 17:47 GMT | In reply to Comment 410 (David Scheibler): I'm sorry mr I-do-personal-insults-when-I-get-desperate but you're wrong once more. The ROM contained within your hardware is not like a game ROM, you cannot use it anyway you want. This was made clear in the Sony vs. Connectix case and this is the laws concerning the use of BIOS/ROM image files or "dumps":
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"It is illegal for the average user to produce, distribute, or use an unauthorized dump of the BIOS of a computer system.
Users cannot fool around with the original system BIOS or its internal microcode in any way without the authorization of the original system vendor. Emulator developers have a limited right to do as they please not only with the system BIOS, but any other system code stored within system firmware, so long as that code is not protected by patent and their final product is noninfringing. Developers may use a dump of an original system BIOS in developing an emulator, but the final or public release version of that emulator cannot require its use in order to function."
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Anything else is simply not true. |
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