[Rant] "Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 25-Dec-2002 12:19 GMT by P E | 220 comments View flat View list |
Over at amiga.org, the signature "takemehomegrandma" has published a somewhat satirical post - for your enjoyment, here goes:
I want to apologize that the AmigaOne has still not been released (A1 mobos+OS4). I also want to apologize to our competing companies that we have accused for crimes in public without being able to back those accusations up with either proof or legal action. I also want to apologize for not keeping our promises to you developers who bought our expensive SDK's. I also want to apologize to the users who bought our coupons, ehrm, JOINED OUR CLUB, but has not been given anything of the promised. I also want to apologize for the confusion when our offices suddenly were empty and our phones went dead (but that was a result of hackers, remember). Amiga Inc is truly a global 24 hours a day company and the future looks brighter than ever for our beloved AMIGA. We are pleased to announce a Games Pocket Pack to our friends Micro$ofts Pocket PC. This truly shows what a great commitment our 3000 content developers has to our beloved AMIGA. Wonderful things are about to happen as allways. Thank you, as allways, for your support. Keep the AMIGA spirit, and remember to follow our trademark wherever we go. We are AMIGA. You are AMIGA (if you pay us 50 bucks). We will be back with more exciting announcements during the next weeks. See you then! /Yours McBill
Well, there you go. Merry christmas!
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"Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? : Comment 220 of 220 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Johan Rönnblom on 30-Dec-2002 20:48 GMT | In reply to Comment 187 (David Scheibler): David Scheibler wrote:
"These 'confidential'-statements are nonsense. They are not needed.
You are not allowed to copy *any* message from *anybody* from one
forum to another unless the original poster allowed you to do
so."
I've heard this is true under German law, but I'm quite sure it's not
here in Sweden for example. But then of course, the disclaimer doesn't
really change anything here either. You might run into copyright
troubles if you republish a letter, but there are exceptions.
Anyway, I don't really like these "don't redistribute" clauses. A few
years back, I got some legal threats from an Amiga-related company
(some people might remember this) and I decided to re-post them
publicly to make this company own up to their imho dirty tactics. Then
they mailed me some more threats with an added clause "don't republish
this". Well, to me that's like somebody threatening me with a baseball
bat in the street, telling me that I'm not *allowed* to tell anybody
about it! Outrageous. I never asked for their email in the first
place.
So while I think it's normally very bad style to republish private
emails, don't assume that it's always illegal, and personally I think
in some cases it's quite correct to do so. Besides, I think that for a
mail to be "private" there has to be a two-way communication - just
sending an unsolicited email to someone doesn't make that "private" in
my opinion. Don't send secrets to strangers, commanding them to keep
it secret, that's my advise.. |
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