[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 28-Apr-2002 10:25 GMT | In reply to Comment 493 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): Dear MR.Hermans, Im by no means a lawyer and therefore I shouldn't even reply to your post. However I have been under the impression that law can always be twisted more or less to your desired outcome assuming there are loopholes allowing to do this.
>>Just for the record: running UAE on an Amiga is not illegal, running it on a >>PC, Mac or non-Amiga licensed or branded hardware is because you are required to make a copy of the Kickstart.
In here you say that UAE on amiga HW is legal, however a couple of lines below you state that UAE as a program is illegal due to the circumstances you describe. This would mean that running UAE on ANY machine including on amiga would be illegal as the program itself is not legal, right?
I could be wrong but if we were in court with this case, I believe the one who could better twist the whole shebang around would win. As it seems that's what can be done here... Twisting and turning the legalities around and round.
>>Even if you own a legal Kickstart, this is not allowed because it doesn't >>come under any of the exceptions to the "copying is not allowed" rule.
>>As UAE basically incites you to break the law, the product itself is illegal
Also I believe here we would again have a good opportunity to twist the legalities anyway we like as: There is no exception in the "copying is not allowed" rule stated by you, that would cover the owning of a legal kickstart under these circumstances. So, if it's not in the law, it thefore shouldn't be acknowledged by the law either. Untill somekind of new legislation would be introduced to cover this "blind spot"
Of course a lawyer is able to twist these things into prohibit me of owning and using my legal kickstart under the above circumstances.
Am I making any sence here? As I said b4 Im no lawyer. This is all based on speculation and "common sence" which is my common sence so it could be more like "commonly senceless"
Anyways, whatever the verdict is I wish you goodluck with OS4 :)
I would be a happy potato if I could buy a pegasos mobo and have OS4 running on it. I hope you will someday receive a dev.board from bplan. |
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