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Posted on 18-Feb-2003 11:21 GMT by Senex50 comments
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At the Melbourne Amiga User Group (MAUG) there's a poll who would buy Umilator (Bernie's Amithlon-successor) for upto 99 Australian Dollars if it would be available.
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Umilator poll : Comment 50 of 50ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Hoggett on 21-Feb-2003 13:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 49 (Anonymous):
> I currently am running it on QNX 6.2, and it is very nice, but some
> updates would be appreciated, especially in light of the fact that
> myself and God knows how many other people bought the damn CD.

What makes this galling is that the emulation itself is under GPL. It's UAE, and therefore the source should be available to be updated by interested developers and/or users, even if H&P can't be bothered to do updates themselves.

Sadly, even this aspect was abused.

> I have written Martin Steigerwald about updates, and all I get is the
> runaround about the lawsuits over Amithlon, blah, blah, blah! What in
> the hell does Amithlon have to do with AmigaXL.

Actually, there is a connection of sorts. AmigaXL also contains Bernie's IP, in the form of his GPL'd JIT compiler, and due to the abuse of the GPL by H&P (not releasing the correct source code, despite repeated requests to do so) they eventually lost that license too (it was terminated under clause 4 of the GPL terms and conditions).

However, it is hypocritical to use that as an excuse for not providing support and updates while at the same time carrying on selling the product.
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