I found the site in question. It is an ecletic mixture of: * A few very old Amiga games, most of which I haven't even heard of, so some may even be freeware (I have not downloaded any to check). * A lot of Amiga programming documentation, including the ROM Kernel Manual. As most (probably all) of this is long out of print & so incredibly hard to obtain, I have no moral problems seeing it here, even if it may theoretically break copyright. Indeed, this could be very useful for anyone wanting to start Amiga programming. * A load of Megadiscs (I presume some sort of free scene mag). * Some Amiga hacker/virus utilities (not really useful today, but could be of historical interest). * Some really ancient commercial Office & Paint programs for the Amiga. * A few other bits & bobs that a probably not important. * Several Kickstarts ROM images & an image of OS3.9+BB2.
The only thing that I have a moral problem with is the last item - the Kickstarts & OS are still owned by a company (Amiga Inc is still with us) and sold (by Cloanto & perhaps others). All the rest is commercially unavailable, and in most cases so old that the companies have long since gone bust.
So I would vote that he is helping the Amiga, except for the Kickstarts & OS image. Last edited by ChrisH on 27-Aug-2006 at 09:37 AM. Last edited by ChrisH on 27-Aug-2006 at 09:35 AM. Last edited by ChrisH on 27-Aug-2006 at 09:34 AM.
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