#Opal Photo-CD Viewer
31-Mar-93 00:08:24
Sb: #28357-#Opal Photo-CD Viewer
Fm: John Gager 71336,624
To: Kermit Woodall 71021,2753
Well I was wondering what the ramifications were of someone releasing a PD
PhotoCD reader for the Amiga who reversed engineered the format. Since it
was written by a person in Europe, I would imagine that Kodak would have a
tough time getting to him via US legal channels, and not sure whether or
not they would want to bother. I'm not sure whether or not anyone here in
the states would want to risk litigation from Kodak for a PD reader. Of
course I did notice that the Opal version did not contain any name or
credits. So I suppose a reader for ImageFX, ImageMaster, or other Amiga
Image Processing programs could just suddenly appear on the nets 8^)
Actually I don't have much sympathy for Kodak. If they would have
supported the Amiga platform like they should have done in the first
place, then they wouldn't have had to worry about anyone reverse
engineering the format.
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