I think you are both correct here. Did it occur to either of you that the Amiga market could have significantly varied depending on what side of the Pond you were on back in the late 80's/early 90's?
Duh, people.
sheldon is coming from the American perspective. I live in the US so I understand what he means when he says that the Amiga was a "fringe" machine. Listen, I had a succession of Amigas starting with the A1000 in '86, and didn't get rid of my A2000 until '94. During those years I came across only 10-15 other Amiga users. Granted, I live in a relatively small town (though it is a college town with 30,000+ students wandering around). I was also in grade school/high school. However, the point is that for an American, the Amiga was definitely a fringe machine. Most PC or Mac users had no earthly clue what an Amiga was. Those who did, would say things like "Damn, those are sweet machines. Wish I had one, but you can't get [insert application name here] for it." Kids in this country did not get an A500 for gaming. They got a Nintendo console. The Amiga simply did not enjoy much popularity here.
Anonymous Coward I'm assuming is coming from the European perspective here (you did say "quid"), which I was exposed to because I have many relatives living in England and Ireland. Yes, in Europe, the Amiga was "IMMENSELY popular". Yes, they sold 50,000 copies of some games. Yes, it was freakin' awesome that the Amiga was accepted so completely and so readily by the European markets. But it wasn't like that in the rest of the world.
By the time I was in high school, there were two ways to get Amiga software: mail order, or piracy. What do you think I chose??
The Apple web site is apparently being updated at this very moment, because I keep getting Forbidden: Your client is not allowed to access the requested object. D'oh!
is that companies should write license agreements (and other legal documents) that make sense. Right? Ambiguity complicates matters unnecessarily and should be avoided. Surely it could have been avoided in this case if Borland had chosen its words more carefully...
I'm not sure I understand why you say that the Microsoft documents should be removed. Sure, Microsoft owns the copyright, but isn't this kind of use considered "fair use" under copyright law? -- Why should it be illegal to quote a reference when arguing a point or offering an issue up for discussion? Does the DMCA really go this far?
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Duh, people.
sheldon is coming from the American perspective. I live in the US so I understand what he means when he says that the Amiga was a "fringe" machine. Listen, I had a succession of Amigas starting with the A1000 in '86, and didn't get rid of my A2000 until '94. During those years I came across only 10-15 other Amiga users. Granted, I live in a relatively small town (though it is a college town with 30,000+ students wandering around). I was also in grade school/high school. However, the point is that for an American, the Amiga was definitely a fringe machine. Most PC or Mac users had no earthly clue what an Amiga was. Those who did, would say things like "Damn, those are sweet machines. Wish I had one, but you can't get [insert application name here] for it." Kids in this country did not get an A500 for gaming. They got a Nintendo console. The Amiga simply did not enjoy much popularity here.
Anonymous Coward I'm assuming is coming from the European perspective here (you did say "quid"), which I was exposed to because I have many relatives living in England and Ireland. Yes, in Europe, the Amiga was "IMMENSELY popular". Yes, they sold 50,000 copies of some games. Yes, it was freakin' awesome that the Amiga was accepted so completely and so readily by the European markets. But it wasn't like that in the rest of the world.
By the time I was in high school, there were two ways to get Amiga software: mail order, or piracy. What do you think I chose??
OS X could be the greatest thing to happen to operating systems since, er, MacOS and UNIX.
The Apple web site is apparently being updated at this very moment, because I keep getting Forbidden: Your client is not allowed to access the requested object. D'oh!
Why, yes. There is a multiplayer version of Angband, the Tolkein-themed Roguelike variant. On the web at mangband.org
is that companies should write license agreements (and other legal documents) that make sense. Right? Ambiguity complicates matters unnecessarily and should be avoided. Surely it could have been avoided in this case if Borland had chosen its words more carefully...
I'm not sure I understand why you say that the Microsoft documents should be removed. Sure, Microsoft owns the copyright, but isn't this kind of use considered "fair use" under copyright law? -- Why should it be illegal to quote a reference when arguing a point or offering an issue up for discussion? Does the DMCA really go this far?