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Guys, this is *not* funny anymore. You are all dealing with copyrighted material and I can assure you, Hyperion will definitely *not* tolerate any unauthorized use of this material.
You should all think twice before publishing more copies of this material. (or making available via "The Zone" or similar) |
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Its not exactly going away anymore, sorry!
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I found this amusing as in the legal world your accusers have to prove your guilt, you do not have to prove your innocence.
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Depends; when IBM designed the PC and its BIOS, the first company which created a 3rd party BIOS (which allowed non-IBM hardware to be used with it) did so by using clean-room reverse-engineering techniques. Without proof of that approach, IBM would have found it much easier to sue them and prevail in court.
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Open sourcing of any kind just isn't going to happen without some sort of miracle. Not all of the code is Commodore, quite a lot of it is owned/copyright of other companies and developers. It would take a lot of time, work and money to have all the code searched and audited for none Commodore code, after that, licences would have to be agreed upon and purchased for any non Commodore code, IF that could even be possible at all! Nobody is going to put that much money and time into this, especially as Hyperion and some others would rather see any OS 3.x related material simply vanish into the void! |
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I take it that current laws in the USA and Europe provide enormous leverage to go after even those accused of intellectual property infringement. The law is blunt, so to speak, and the subtle points of your actions may not be handled well by it. Money may not even be an issue either, as the parties who may come after you would be doing this because of contractual obligations (as in "we granted you the right to use this material under specific circumstances and you will lose that right if you fail to police its use"). I don't know about you, but I have come to view caring for software as a responsibility. Software ought to be useful. How would you achieve this if you are running the gauntlet of avoiding getting tripped up by whoever is after you for tinkering with code you were not supposed to be using? User feedback being as important as it is, how do you listen and respond to it if you end up having to do so clandestinely? Seems like an awful lot of distractions to me, where at some point you'll have to consider whether the effort you spend on making the software work well has come to be overshadowed by the effort spent on evading the agents of law and/or justice. I can easily imagine causes which in my eyes would justify this effort (e.g. PGP comes to my mind, even Tor). But some small Amiga hardware driver? That seems to become even smaller as you look at it. That said, if there is a reason to work on the 68k Amiga operating system of old, I think it ought to include being able to cooperatively work on it, within the legal boundaries that exist. If this old operating system has to live on and grow, it cannot do so in the shadows only. Last edited by Olaf Barthel; 01 January 2016 at 14:12. Reason: Money does not change everything |
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It'd be a good start, asking couldn't hurt.
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Hi Olaf,
It seems big from a hobbyist point of view. Without ever recompiling it, it would be of some help to hobbyists programming the Amiga through the OS, but hard to fathom why any company would be interested in a 68k OS source that’s a big inconvenience to compile... (Other than Cloanto due to some built & useable ROM) |
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@frank_b, re approaching Cloanto to put a price on opening the source; they provide an amazing package that Id imagine would survive being open. But they would need a way to manage their competitors in some way so someone doesnt start cloning any if their USPs.
Its a kickstarter Id definitely back though. Sent from Ubuntu Touch using the Forum Browser app |
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Well if the Kickstarter was worth more than Amiga forever it would make business sense to sell it.
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It is not at all clear that Cloanto has the right to open source Amiga OS. And if he does, open sourcing it would make his whole business model moot. Kickstart is an integral part of classic Amiga OS.
Having a closer look at original CBM source code is interesting, but today we have AROS. |
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