10.12.2000
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Could one imagine the following scenario: someone buys a program, makes copies
of it and starts selling them. The maker of the program tells him this is
illegal but the guy persists, with the excuse that he got a license from a
friend.

Sounds like science fiction? This is exactly what is happening right now.
AmiTCP being sold illegaly within the "OS" 3.9 package. H&P making money out
of it without asking the original authors of the software nor giving them any
reward for all their work.

There's only one word to describe that: piracy. And this is not the kind of
piracy you normaly find; some users making copies. This is industrial piracy
done directly at the source. If you buy "OS" 3.9 you automatically get pirated
software included.

H&P claims they have a license from Active Technologies to sell AmiTCP. The
problem is that Active Technologies is not in position of delivering such a
license, thus this claim is complete nonsense.

NSDi gave H&P a chance by sending them a reasonable proposal for licensing
AmiTCP. They didn't get any reply.

I am very pissed with what is happening. Not only they compromise the
future development of AmiTCP but they don't care about software authors
and intelectual property rights. Don't be surprised many Amiga programmers
are leaving the small remaining market.

And ironically they're the initiators and supporters of a so called 
"anti-piracy campaign"..