In reply to Comment 583 (Stefan Burström): Sure it is up to me to decide what is legal or not, like it is up to every one
of us. There are ways for every one of us to influence and change the ways laws
are made and applied. And since noone seems to give a flying duck about what I
do with my own stuff, I continue to do whatever I will with it. I would be most
astonished to seethe police on my doorstep just because I softkick my machine.
As for making copies of software.. if I bought the software with the intention
of running it on machine-A, I can do whatever I ducking like to make it happen,
even if the software itself was not intended to run on machine-A in the first place.
If this means ripping the kickstart from my dead A600, so be it, a ROM is just yet
another storage device for the kickstart software, I can make a copy of it and use
the copy instead of the original. Or are you also suggesting that if I burn a backup
copy of the CD, I shall not use the backup, but keep using the original? Are backups
only alowed if the original is broken? Fine, I rip the rom chip and drill a hole
through them afterwords. And I bet you also burns all your CDs you rip mp3s from.
As for 3 amigas, I dont have 3 amigas ccapable of using the same kickstarts, so that's
not an issue for me atleast. But I do use UAE on a bunch of computers, I have a harddisk
file that I copy around on the computers that I use, and same with the kickstart.
If Amiga Inc thinks I'm braking the law, then let them bring me to court, I'll gladly
sit a few weeks in jail for this.
As for seals, they dont apply here in Norway, and AFAIK not in EU either, as we have customer
rights that says we can return the products within a certain time (I think the EU went for 6
weeks now) if we for some reason decide to do so, selas broken or not. Therefor the "by breaking
the seal, you agree to the folowing..." does not apply here, and if I remember correctly there have
been a few cases on this.
As for EULA, I have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about as I bought all my amigas second hand.
Is that also illegal now?
The EULA for OS3.5+ AFAIK conflicts with Norwegian as it says AmigaOS can only legally
be run on compaters that were sold with AmigaOS on them originally. This exact part conflicts
with the law, which basicly says anyone can run whatever software they have bought on whatever
hardware they own. Amiga's lawyers should either have this fixed, but since they havent, the entire
EULA is not valid. I would love to see Amiga protect thrir non-valid EULA in court.
MicroSoft has done this a few times and never won. Companies cannot put whatever they like in
EULAs and claim that anyone who do not follow the EULA is breaking the law.
I find it amusing though that the EULA of AmigaOS3.5+ not only conflicts with national laws, but also
conflicts with the sale of Amiga4Ever as well as Amithlon, as none of them run on computers originally
sold with AmigaOS on them.
And if you made that e-book of yours that would delete itserlf after use, you are wrong that
I could do nothing about it, I could do whatever I like about it such as making a reader that
would prevent the e-book's selfdestruct procedure to start. The question is wether you would
be allowed to even sell a read-once e-book.
As for 30 days licenses, that is software that you have not paid for, so customer rights dont apply.
Also, the n-days trial thing is something the software industry has made up to promote their producst,
they do it on their own risk. I can anytime walk into a store and buy any software I like and try it out for
6 weeks or whatever, and have it returned if I wasnt pleased with it. |