[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 38 of 186 | ANN.lu |
Posted by smithy on 20-May-2002 22:03 GMT | In reply to Comment 30 (|Lando|): >OK, just say for a moment that PC's get their own AmigaOS.
>99.9% of PC users will ignore it, just as they did BeOS.
>The other 0.1% install it as dual boot with Windows.
Actually, the BeOS userbase grew massively when BeOS was ported to the PC.
>But, they dont buy any apps or games for it or course, since they already have
>the Windows versions which came out a year earlier.
And what apps are you planning to buy for OS4?
On an AmigaOS/PC system, there would be few apps to start with, however, once the userbase grew more would be developed. Just as is the case with Linux.
>They leave AmigaOS on their hard drive for a few months, occasionally booting
>into it to mess around. Eventually then need the hard drive space back to
>install a new game so they delete the AmigaOS partition to make way for Quake
>4.
That didn't happen with Linux, or even BeOS, when it was around.
>Thats the "future" of AmigaOS on x86.
There is a massive market of computing enthusiasts that use x86 machines. You only have to read message boards like Slashdot and osOpinion.com to see that many users are looking for an alternative to Windows and Linux. Systems like OpenBeOS and Atheos are looking to fill this void. There is a massive potential here for AmigaOS.
The computing enthusiasts market is there for the taking. They don't expect apps overnight, indeed many of them are developers looking for a new system to develop on. There is a tremendous opportunity here. |
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