[News] Amiga Inc. Plans to Shutdown Illegal Uses of Amiga IP | ANN.lu |
Posted on 28-Jul-2002 03:51 GMT by STRICQ | 172 comments View flat View list |
The deadline is September 1st, 2002. After then, anyone not on good legal standing with Amiga Inc. will be sued.
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Posted by Bill Hoggett on 29-Jul-2002 11:59 GMT | In reply to Comment 73 (darklite): > I'm not saying H&P is not at fault, but why do you know AInc isn't
> also at fault?
They might be, but it is not the issue here.
> The terms of the contract could've been totally different from the
> terms they agreed on earlier and could've been unacceptable to H&P.
> AInc have made such contracts before, ask Ralph Schmidt.
That is wild speculation, since H&P have so far refused to make any official statement on the issue. Either way, the REASON why they refused to sign the contract is irrelevant. No singature means no contract, and no contract means H&P have no right to distribute Kickstart images. Simple, really.
> I heard AInc wanted to get the rights to OS3.5/9, and maybe they're
> trying to 'blackmail' H&P now?
Check the copyrights to OS 3.9: they already belong to Amiga Inc. What Amiga Inc do not have access or rights to is the source code for any of the stuff H&P changed or upgraded.
Alleged blackmail or not, not signing a contract that is on the table amounts to rejection of the deal. It does not mean "we'll carry on as if the deal is done and renegotiate until we see something we like - meanwhile we'll keep all the money we make, thank you".
> H&P are idiots because they released a product for which they didn't
> have a licence from AInc, with whom they weren't really friendly with.
The latter part is irrelevat. The first part is crucial.
Whatever conditions Amiga Inc applied to that contract, they were not agreed to, hence Amiga Inc are perfectly entitled, indeed duty bound, to protect their property.
If I have a problem with H&P, it is with their lax approach to licensing rights altogether. The Amiga Inc issue is not an isolated case when you consider the Genesis/AmiTCP and AmigaXL/GPL issues in the same light. |
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