[News] Fleecy Moss clarifies on ANN | ANN.lu |
Posted on 20-May-2002 22:17 GMT by SlimJim | 186 comments View flat View list |
For those of you lacking the stamina to wade through the 300+ posts-thread
on ANN (named "the next ppc amiga" ), Fleecy Moss, CTO at Amiga Inc,
made a short surprise visit to dispell some rumours about the BPlan-AInc situation (apparently
after getting the thumbs up from AInc:s legal advisors).
Snippets from various posts:
[...] "For AmigaOS4, Amiga said that it will welcome ANY and ALL hardware companies
which develop hardware. We have spent many hours of email with
representatives of bPlan and in all of them, our line has been consistent.
1.We will be very happy to provide bPlan with an OS4 licence, and to have
OS4 running on the Pegasos
2.Amiga compatability within MorphOS comes from illegally obtained source
tapes and we will use all legal process to prevent it from entering the
market.
It is not Amiga Inc preventing AmigaOS4 from running on the Pegasos. As far
as Amiga Inc is concerned, we consider the two issues mentioned above as
being completely separate."
[...]
"Most of you (with an interest in the truth anyway) have already asked the
obvious question. What would Amiga Inc gain from NOT allowing OS4 to run on
the Pegasos. Answer - absolutely nothing.
The licence terms for OS4 are the same for bPlan as for Eyetech and anyone
else who wishes to sell an Amiga product that runs OS4. It is a typical OEM
licence, and presents a level playing field, for producers, for distributors
and for customers. You will find NO exclusive deals done for any product
that carries the Amiga seal of approval, and no favouritism played to any
company or individual.
Any company that says that they approached us and we rejected them is lying.
They may not have liked certain elements of the OEM deal, but it is the same
deal as everyone else is offered."
[...]
"Anything to do with MorphOS and its 'amiga compatability' will be decided,
so it seems, in the courts."
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Fleecy Moss clarifies on ANN : Comment 181 of 186 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Anonymous on 22-May-2002 11:59 GMT | In reply to Comment 180 (Akaru): The Apple thing was an excuse, and a poor one at that. Out of all the non-Apple metal-banging software running on Macs only BeOS was somehow "unable" to run on new boards. Be Inc. were never more in the dark about running BeOS on Apple boards than on PC boards, but they went to x86 to spite Apple when Jobs was chosen over JLG.
They'd probably have gone to AMD last year if they'd still had any market left, to spite Intel for abandoning them (and they would have blamed the P4 changes that crash BeOS just as they blamed Apple's changes before). I knew a few of Be's engineers vaguely and they seem like basically nice guys, but the management of that company, in particular JLG, were childish sometimes.
As to Open Source, well JLG said that he'd do it if the customers and stockholders saw any benefit. The BeOS die-hards are just as fanatical as the Amigans here on ANN and so they said "No, no, preserve the purity of the OS -- you will succeed where Linux failed BECAUSE you aren't Open Source" and now they've had to spend the last nine months trying to re-write their favourite OS from scratch because the source code is in a dusty closet at Palm Inc.
Most "future BeOS" systems (e.g. BlueEyedOS, Cosmoe) seem to be Linux with different graphics, a bit like earlier ideas for future AmigaOS. 10 years (and $100M) worth of engineering and the users saw BeOS as "Linux but with different graphics". The amazing media tools never shipped. The improved networking never shipped. The 3D drivers never shipped. Just as with AmigaOS the users say "It really makes the most of the hardware", but then they provide a litany of complaints about performance and reliability (especially on SMP, supposedly one of Be's strengths). |
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