| [News] IOSPIRIT freezes its own AMIGA-developments | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 08-Mar-2004 11:53 GMT by Felix Schwarz | 69 comments
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Felix Schwarz, with immediate effect, freezes the development of
fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio and the IOUSB- and VHI-drivers. Medusa and
IBrowse are external developments and thus are not affected.
All products will stay in distribution. Whether the development will
be reactivated at a later point in time mainly depends on the further
economical and social development of the market and the profits made
with it.
The AMIGA-pages can be found at http://amiga.iospirit.de/ in the
future. Although www.iospirit.de currently still redirects to this
page, we nonetheless would be glad if existing hyperlinks in
AMIGA-context would be adapted accordingly.
Subsequently, you'll find an open letter from Felix Schwarz to the
AMIGA-community in all its occurences.
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| Posted by ilwrath on 08-Mar-2004 18:34 GMT | In reply to Comment 31 (Anonymous):
> you-can-do-anything-you-want-but-you-cant-do? I miss the logic in that.
What? The logic is that you can do anything you like, so long as you don't drive it on public roads. This is for public safety, and has nothing to do with your argument, which is baseless and incorrect.
> I don't want to sound like a broken record but it is before the law.
No, it isn't.*
(once again, in the US, we are bound to the EULA license. The keyword license. Don't believe me? Try to sell used original software on eBay, vs. trying to sell a used original book.)
> I understand the desire to negate that (it lessens the guilt when starting
> kaazaa?) but that won't get you around simple facts.
FYI, I've never run kazaa, edonkey or any of that other spy/share crap. I have downloaded some bits from other shady sources in the past... But that's not part of your argument, and has nothing to do with the "simple facts" in this discussion. Nice straw-man.
To finish off this tangent, most of my current software I did obtain for free. But not because of piracy, but because it was given to me by the (L)GPL and other public-friendly licenses. Oddly enough, these often provide me MORE VALUE, at less cost, as the license also includes rights to touch the source code!
> You might be confusing the terms "products" and "physical goods"?
Actually, by "product" I was implying "physical product." You are correct. I should have specified this better. So, I argue that software is not a physical product or physical good. You have not yet countered this argument with anything that makes any sense, Anonymous. |
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