21-May-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> what are the differences between Genesis from
>> NetCconnect3 and OS3.9 ?
>
> Well the one of the main differences is that the original
> Vapor version of Genesis was a MUI proggie, whereas the OS
> 3.9 version is ReAction. -- apparently there was a large
> legal fandangle between the programmer of the Vapor
> Genesis who wasn't fully paid (?) and Vapor who claimed
> there was a bug in the ppp.device (?)...
Either one of us is now badly disinformed and disinforming.. Vapor is not
Active Technologies - there has _never_ been a Vapor Genesis AFAIK.. It was
Active Tech who owned the copyrights, as the documents very clearly state, and
Vapor has only kindly offered some support to the Genesis package, in form of
this mailing list and some co-marketing operations.
I've never heard anything about Vapor having any kind of problems in any
legalities.
> I'm not gonna touch that one except to say that the matter
> was apparently happily resolved by H&P who bought the
> rights and got the fellow to fix the bug IIRC.
Happily and happily.. And didn't it turn out that the whole AmiTCP lisence not
a transferrable one - so the whole H&P deal wasn't actually legal at all..? ;)
And therefore there'll be yet another - third! - TCP/IP stack in the next
AmigaOS release..
> So all things considered I'd say go with the 3.9 Genesis;
> aside from being free, it's got much better karma. :-D
Better karma? Well, if that version breaks the rights of the AmiTCP
programmers, I'd certainly say not - at least the Active Tech one was a legal
one..
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- Kimmo V��riskoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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