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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: KAOS TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <2929@atari.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 91 21:25:31 GMT
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>Greg Granger ersys!ggranger%nro.cs.athabascau.ca  at Mi, 24.04.91 13:20 in
>ATARI.SUB:
>>If anybody in Europe has the KAOS TOS 1.4 fix files, it would be greatly
>>appreciated if they could upload them to atari.archive.umich.edu. [...]


Robert_Osten@hb2.maus.de (Robert Osten) writes:
>First I have to point out that the 'KAOS 1.4.2'-Fixes are copyrighted. So an
>upload to atari.archive is illegal !

That's a laugh!  This kind of thinking doesn't seem to have occurred to the
KAOS people.  I believe it is a derivative of a copyrighted work, and
therefore an infringement of Atari's copyright on TOS.

>So if you'd have any problems
>with other programs you can't claim any support services, especially 
>from ATARI!

Correct.  You can't expect support from Atari if you're using a non-Atari,
illegally-derived operating system.  It is also the case that, in general,
trouble with "other programs" should be handled by the other programs'
manufacturers, not by Atari.

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt