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Posted on 15-Apr-2002 13:27 GMT by Morka | 510 comments View flat View list |
This is email from Thomas Frieden about AOS4.0 and Pegasos board.
Odosielate¾: Thomas Frieden <ThomasF@hyperion-entertainment.com>
Adresát: morka@zoznam.sk
Predmet: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 on Pegasos
Hi,
morka@zoznam.sk wrote:
>Hi. I have one problem. I want buy Pegasos but at today AOS4.0 not run on this board.
Say who ? I thought it was already said: We do want to support the Pegasos board. It's firmly planned. Unfortunately, we haven't received a developer board yet, but if we ever get one, OS4 will run on the Pegasos.
Regards,
Thomas Frieden
Senior Developer, Hyperion Entertainment
ThomasF@hyperion-entertainment.com
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com
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Posted by Neko on 15-Apr-2002 21:19 GMT | Just some things to clear up:
MorphOS does *not* rely on AmigaOS 3.1 (at least on the bPlan Pegasos..), or
use any Amiga-patented software solutions, distribute any Amiga-owned software
(such as ADCD autodocs or includes) nor does it use any Amiga-related
trademarks or logos. Therefore, someone please explain why it is supposedly
illegal, since it does nothing that AROS, GeekGadgets or WinUAE have already
done for years.
If AROS and GeekGadgets and WinUAE are illegal (for cloning the API for other
systems, requiring you go and buy Amiga-owned documents seperately for proper
operation, and emulating the Amiga chipset designs and patented features) then
why hasn't Amiga, or Hyperion, or whoever else wants to take a shot, gone after
those people?
There are plenty of software solutions out there on the market that "clone" the
behaviour of one system for interoperability with others. In the case of MorphOS
you can argue that MorphOS creates interoperability between it (the OS) and
existing Amiga applications bound to that hardware (the Amiga it runs on). In
the case of the bPlan Pegasos this is agreed to be less true, but is in no
way illegal because of it.
As for Amiga, they have no reason to be bitched at because of Amiga's press
release. Ben Hermans is right in that there is nothing stopping anyone from
proceeding to get a license to run Amiga "technology" on some other hardware.
Hyperion may well yet get a Pegasos board and port AmigaOS 4 to it. Then all
that stops it from getting to the customer is a company willing to act as a
distributer and set up a support role, and implement an anti-piracy solution
in software. This could be bPlan, Vesalia, KDH, some unknown benefactor, anyone
who can guarantee the things Amiga want to assure for the customer.
But anyway, as for MorphOS being illegal: it isn't. IANAL but if someone here
thinks they are and can prove otherwise without just throwing around some big
words, they can. As it stands the only thing splitting any Community now is a
huge rolling argument. If you could all just shut up for a second you'll see
that you have a choice: one that means you have more than one solution which
gives you exactly the same outcome. A PPC AmigaOS running natively on a PPC
motherboard, using PC-standard PCI/AGP hardware, new technologies such as USB
and Firewire, whether you use AmigaOne/Pegasos/AmigaOS4/MorphOS you'll get the
same thing.
The decision you have to make is.. which do you buy?
Whatever choice you make is yours and yours alone. It is not up to anyone here
to dictate which solution is more morally right or wrong, or the better
solution or not. If someone isn't buying the product you are: well, screw 'em.
Unlucky for them, I guess. You don't get any prizes for being right or proving
anyone wrong. If a company or person wants to do one thing and some other
company or person does it another way, that's called diversity. That's what
makes the human race special.
Not all this stupid arguing that gets 200 posts to a news site in 5 hours.
As for other things: the Bill Buck mail may have been real, but who cares? It
means you saw Fleecy for the real person he is for once. It means Bill isn't to
be trusted too, though. And about the Eyetech/Mai thing: it may have been true,
but what if it isn't anymore, or wasn't anyway? Who cares? Why do people have
to jump up and down about it?
I think you should all sit down, calm down and shut up, WAIT
Neko |
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