[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 185 of 186 | ANN.lu |
Posted by ShadesOfGrey on 23-May-2002 01:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 170 (Echelon): >For people supporting "x86 killed BeOS" idea...
>Please note that QNX-x86 version is still alive.
Yes, but QSSL is not trying to compete head-to-head with M$ on the desktop market. QSSL's primary market is embedded systems. The primary function of QNX RtP is as development platform for their embedded systems, not as a 'mainstream' desktop OS.
If Gateway had followed through way back when, an Amiga OS (based on QNX RtP) would most likely be on quite a few desktops... And it would have been very successful. But I'd venture to guess that the first desktops that such an OS would've appeared on would not have been X86. No, initially this software platform would be powered by MIPS, PPC, SH4 and StrongARM systems. With X86 systems following shortly after.
As has been pointed out here, the Be situation is/was much more complicated than just Be vs. Apple, PPC vs. X86, or BeOS vs. BeIA. But what I believe put Be in its final death throws was Be vs. M$. If it hadn't been for M$'s OEM license, Be might still be Be instead of Palm. And Be would have not put all its egg in one basket with BeIA.
M$ may be in decline or not, but they're still big enough to muscle out just about any new OS contender on the X86 platform... Unless your offering the OS for 'free'. |
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