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From: lbruck@eneevax.UUCP (Lewis S.Bruck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Version 1.3 is out!
Summary: Not Bloody Likely!!
Message-ID: <1825@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 01:50:37 GMT
References: <1229@raybed2.UUCP> <3274@hubcap.UUCP>
Reply-To: lbruck@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Lewis S.Bruck)
Organization: Elec. Eng. Dept., U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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In article <3274@hubcap.UUCP> rchampe@hubcap.UUCP (Richard Champeaux) writes:
>
>Although this sounds like pirating, my justification is that since I believe 
>the kickstart disks are freely distributable, or at least I am allowed to make
>as many copies for my own personal use as I want, copying it to eprom is
>really no different than copying it to another disk.
>
>Rich Champeaux
>Clemson University

Kickstart is by no means redistributable.  I just picked up my copy and was
reading the licensing agreement ( I was bored ) and found out that C-A has
a fairly rough set of requirements, namely only one copy of the disk(s).  I
don't know about the rest of the world, but until I got my hard disk (praise
the day...) I had several copies of the Workbecnch commands on different
disks for different ``environments'' (programming, word processing, typesetting,
etcetera).  With all due respect to C-A, it looks like a boilerplate agreement
for all of their software, not for OS stuff.

There is also a point about software not being allowed to be transferred
electronically between computers.  Is there then a legal way to boot an
Amiga off a network (at such a time when autoboot Ethernet comes out...)

BTW C-A, if you wish to press charges against me for too many copies of
Workbench, I will be glad to return them to you (I like hard disks...:-)

Lewis Bruck

Not officially a member of the human race, even.