[News] Thendic France comment on OS4.0 | ANN.lu |
Posted on 17-Aug-2002 19:55 GMT by cheesegrate | 165 comments View flat View list |
On an ANN thread Bill and Raquel comment on their attitude towareds AmigaOS4 and it's appearance on the pegasos.
"If AmigaOS4.0 is fully finished and running natively on a
PPC we will be happy for Hyperion and Amiga Inc. Undoubtedly, in this community
there will be more than one person who will copy a legally obtained copy
of the operating system onto the Pegasos. How will Amiga Inc. stop this?
We cannot control this and neither can they. If AmigaOS4.0 becomes what
it is claimed to be – great! We will sell a few more Pegasos machines.
Thanks Hyperion! We wish them our best. We have absolutely nothing against
this effort."
Personally I think that no hardware developers who don't licence the amiga
name will pay money for certification to get os4 running on their boards.
However because the pegasos and the amiga one share the same northbridge
and BIOS (atm), it should not be difficult for a developer to port os4 across
to the pegasos. The question is; Will Hyperion and Amiga Inc allow this without
wanting money from Bplan/Thendic France? And does it matter?
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Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 19-Aug-2002 09:20 GMT | In reply to Comment 60 (DaveW): >You all should note that Ben Herman has stopped making inaccurate and >inappropriate statements about MorphOS. We appreciate this very much. Better to >let both groups go forward as they will.
Well, it's a well known fact that these statements were not made by me but a "drunken employee" who snuck into the Hyperion office repeatedly.
No wait ... that didn't happen to us.
Seriously now, I have put forward my legal objections repeatedly citing applicable EU and German law and case-law both here and in private to mister Buck who (according to himself at least) has access to top-lawyers.
To this date, we have not received any reply with substantive legal arguments by a qualified person (ie a lawyer) to convince me of the fallacy of our legal reasoning.
I fail to see the point to continue this debate in public now that I've made our case but I certainly don't retract any of those statements as long as MorphOS is marketed with AmigaOS compatibility and with reference to AmigaOS.
Actions such as hijacking the "AmigaOne" keyword on Google with a paid advertisement (in violation of Google's own terms of use and EU and international intellectual and industrial property law) have convinced me that nothing short of a court order will put a stop to these activities. |
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