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Posted by Seehund on 13-Apr-2002 19:19 GMT | In reply to Comment 75 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): Ben,
I see what you mean, but in my example I (now renamed to "Company A") was the entity buying mobos from a cheap manufacturer and selling them cheap to whoever would be interested. For simplicity's sake let's say Company A aims its marketing at 1. Linux geeks and 2. embedded systems developers.
Now let's say the hypothetical Amiga related company you use as an example, "Company B", buys a batch of the same motherboards from the same manufacturer. B buys a smaller batch, because B is only planning one single product line and that has to be aimed at Amiga users exclusively. Price goes up. B has to set up a support organisation for both software and hardware. Price goes up. B gets the boards and his company licensed. Price goes up. B has to ship every board with a copy of Amiga OS. Price goes up.
Under the currently outlined licensing/bundling conditions, a prospective Amiga user who really doesn't expect to need any "official" support channels or doesn't have any brand name loyalty still has to go with the hardware and pricing that Company B are offering, and there won't be many "Company B's" around since they have to restrict their sales to a small Amiga market.
Also, there will be fewer Company A's around and they'll sell lower volumes, since Amiga users aren't allowed to buy their hardware so Company A loses the chance of adding "3. Amiga users" to that list at the top of this comment.
Higher prices. Less competition. Smaller consumer PPC market. Slower PPC platform development. Less people interested in Amiga OS.
I understand the need of piracy countermeasures, but surely the ROM extensions should be just as efficient as treating the whole system as a giant bundled dongle? Not that I don't believe *any* of those methods will be circumvented by some clever h4xx0r within days of the OS4 release anyway...
"When un-bundled systems are outlawed, only outlaws will be using un-bundled systems." ;) |
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