[Coco] FPGA 63x09

[Stephen Adolph]

Relax dude.

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:04 AM,  <jdaggett at gate.net> wrote:
>
> LET ME MAKE THIS VERY SIMPLE AND QUITE LOUDLY. I AM VERY
> WELL AWARE OF COPYRIGHT LAWS. I HAVE ALREADY STARTED
> WRITING A 6309 CORE BEFORE I SAW THE GM CORE. I ALREADY
> HAVE THE ALU AND THE REGISTER STACK CODED PLUS SOME OF
> THE STARTS OF THE STATE MACHINE AND OTHER LOGIC. YES I
> GET IDEAS FROM ALL SOURCES.  MAINLY FROM ONE OF MY
> TEXTBOOKS.
>
> IT IS MY WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> IT IS MY WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> IT IS MY WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> DO YOU COMPREHEND???????????
>
> I DO USE KILL FILTERS AND THIS  IF THIS THREAD GOES ANY
> FURTHER, I DO PLAN TO DO SO.
>
>
> JAMES
>
> On 29 Mar 2009 at 3:16, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
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>> jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>> > good grief. Unless you are a lawyer giving me free advice then I may
>> > consider what you have stated. As I have declared before I do not
>> > care to get into a debate on copyright laws here. Been there and
>> > have done that before on this forum.
>>
>> Look, I'll break this down for you real quick. You have several
>> choices, as you have already outlined before. One of which is a freely
>> available, modifiable, and redistributable package that anyone can use
>> (but which you don't like), and another where the owner says "YOU
>> CANNOT DO THIS".
>>
>> You can start from scratch, rewrite somebody else's code legally, or
>> rip someone off; and your statement is that you would rather rip
>> someone off than do something properly, because the code you want to
>> rip off is in a style you like better than another one.
>>
>> This isn't even a copyright debate, it's just a big "fuck you" to both
>> the guys at Green Mountain who lets you make your own products using
>> their IP core, and the numerous guys out there (like whats-his-name
>> who did the 6809 core used in the FPGA CoCo project) who actually DO
>> create IP cores that are freely available (unlike GM's) for projects
>> like you're planning.
>>
>> Even ignoring copyright, the Green Mountain guys laid it out plainly
>> that as a condition of your own use of the IP core, you aren't allowed
>> to give it to anyone else---only to deploy it (modified or not) in
>> product form. Even if it were not framed in terms of copyright, it's a
>> breach of contract. The only reason you are allowed to use the damn
>> thing at all is because of those conditions, which you would be
>> breaking.
>>
>> Even things like NitrOS-9 exist in SOME sort of gray area, while
>> you're basically telling GM to go screw themselves in punishment for
>> their own good deeds.
>>
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