From: Olivier Aichelbaum Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: Perihelion is no more, was Re: Helios is no more Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:40:46 +0100 Organization: ACBM Message-Id: <36B0F57E.13C0@acbm.com> References: <36AD941E.5987E7A9@feeney.co.uk> <78nogu$f79$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36B09D06.7111@mchugh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.sys.transputer:9005 Andrzej Lewandowski wrote: > To my best knowledge, if company goes out > of business, this DOES NOT mean that automatically its products > become public property. If you signed a licence, read it carefully: > usually > there is nowhere stated what happens in such situation. This means that > the licence is still valid. Usually, the company does not go away > completely. > Somebody (creditors, VC) become owners. They also keep rights to the > products. (sorry for my poor english) few weeks ago, i wrote to the email that appears on Perihelion homepage : " > bonjour > we are about 10 Atari Transputer Workstation users. > some of us lost our Operating System. > others use Helios 1.3 or older. > As you don't sell anymore Helios for ATW, i'd like to > know if installing Helios on computer that "losted" it > would be piracy ?" their answer : " No. Please feel free to copy and use Transputer Helios as you like, provided that you do not charge for it. -- Alex " regards, -- Olivier Aichelbaum Pirates Magazine 14/30 rue de Mantes Le Virus Informatique 92 700 Colombes Les Puces Informatiques Tel (Fax) : -1 47 81 04 45 (03 72) http://www.acbm.com