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Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 13-Apr-2002 15:16 GMT | In reply to Comment 19 (Keith Blakemore-noble): Let me first of all say that I think ANN needs a way to avoid to the same subject (annex comments) show up in both moderated and unmoderated categories.
Now for the facts (which I already posted on the other unmoderated thread).
1. The AmigaOne will ship with OS 4. It is an OEM model which allows us to cut down on piracy and hence secure further funding for continued development of the OS.
If you are buying the hardware, you are also buying the software at the same time just like when you bought your original Amiga, an Apple machine or most pre-build Wintel machines.
2. There is NO impediment to running Linux or BSD or what have you on the AmigaOne.
3. Eyetech may well decide (if there is sufficient demand) to produce the same hardware but target it towards Linux PPC users.
Such hardware will not be called "AmigaOne" and will not ship with OS 4.
In fact, such hardware cannot be called "AmigaOne" for legal reasons.
It does appear that you will be able to buy a "conversion kit" with a ROM and a copy of OS 4. This will be more expensive than the OEM version.
4. In the post Commodore era there have been companies operating in the market whose business practises were sub-standard and occassionally criminal.
No technical support, no after sales service including repair, cards sent in for repair vanished into the Bermuda triangle, no warranty, pre-order money collected supposedly into an escrow account disappeared etc.
To avoid this type of sub-standard business practises, Amiga is insisting on "vetting" both the actual hardware (quality) and the company producing it (support infrastructure, financial viability etc.) to ensure that this type of activity does not damage the Amiga brand and Amiga's public image.
Companies wishing to target the Amiga userbase must submit to this process which takes place on the basis of fair, objective and reasonable criteria (as required by competition law). |
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