[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 76 of 186 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Akaru on 21-May-2002 05:58 GMT | In reply to Comment 25 (smithy): >The people that own PCs need off-the-shelf software. That's why they own PCs. >It's because they need to write their essays for university and work, they might >want to use modern internet software, and they want to play the latest games. >With AmigaOS restricted to hardware that this type of thing isn't currently >available for, who is going to switch? Or, indeed, who is going to have both >machines? Just for an OS which has no modern apps?
Ohh please, They only choose the hardware that windows runs on, most people don't make a concious choice, they don't even make a concious choice of windows they make a concious choice of using Microsoft office which requires windows which requires x86. The only thing they know about hardware is that its a 2gHz processor with 256 mb of ram and a 2GB disk, a lot of people don't even know the difference between those three.
Choosing x86 is not going to get mainstream applications on Amiga any faster than choosing PPC. People aren't going to choose Amiga cos it runs on x86, people are going to run whatever OS runs Microsoft windows, or Adobe Photoshop, and thats not Amiga.
So your argument is crap.
>>Also when we getta GTK ( among other *mainstream* libs ) port we'll be able to
>>compile and use alot of unix-like os apps too :)
>
>Ahhh yes, and who is going to port these mainstream libraries? Why haven't they >done it over the past 10 years? And what makes you think they'd do it for >MOS/OS4/PPC?
>
Hrm well you'd imagine it would be anyone with a compiler, I imagine very little changes would need to be made to the source to compile them. In the past the Amiga has had librarys that allowed linux/unix software to be ported across Ixemul for one if I rememebr correctly and also xwindows servers.
>With AmigaOS/PC, there'd be a massive number of new potential users, not to >mention new developers interested in an modern, viable alternative to Windows >and Unix that is already accessible to most people. Perhaps OpenBeOS or AtheOS >will seize this market?
You obviously have no idea what your talking about, developers are interested in making money, forging new ground with niche OS's doesn't do that. And with the current downturn in the industry, they aren't even going to waste the time to even look sideways at AmigaOS.
The only people who would develop for Amiga would be people interested in Amiga already. Maybe if it actually was any good, and it got popular others might consider it but thats a long way off. |
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