[News] Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware | ANN.lu |
Posted on 25-May-2002 20:50 GMT by Seehund | 187 comments View flat View list |
There's a petition aimed at Amiga Inc. set up at http://www.petitiononline.com/amigaos/ for all those who disagree with Amiga Inc's presented plans regarding compulsory OS/hardware bundling and licensing.
An excerpt from the petition:
On April 12th, 2002, you, Amiga Inc., published your plans regarding distribution policies for the forthcoming AmigaOS4 in an "Executive Update" on your web site.
In short, what you say and what we the undersigned object against is this:
* Any hardware capable of running AmigaOS must first be modified with "AmigaOS specific extensions" to its "boot ROM" in order to be allowed to run AmigaOS.
* Such hardware and its distributors must be approved and licensed by Amiga Inc. and the hardware distributors must also sell and support AmigaOS4.
* AmigaOS will only be available bundled with such hardware.
We think that the above will seriously hurt AmigaOS users, the POP/PPC hardware market and thus ultimately you, Amiga Inc., yourselves.
To read the entire petition and sign it, please click here.
Before those imagining sides, factions, camps and personal enemies everywhere start commenting, it must be emphasised that this poll is not intended to "promote" anything else than the success of AmigaOS, the POP/PPC hardware market, free choice and ethical business practices.
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Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware : Comment 106 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Don Cox on 26-May-2002 16:52 GMT | In reply to Comment 103 (SlimJim): "Plus, there's no such thing as British English. The UK has one of the most dialectically diverse
characters; there are more variants of colloquial English than there are languages in Europe.
Back in the 1600s the French passed laws banning the use of foreign words and set up committees
who put together lists of 'official' words. This carries on today (eg the use of 'baladeur' as a literal
translation of 'walkman') "
"Standard English" is the version spoken by middle class people in the
South East of England. Their grammar and vocabulary is basically what
is used in most printed books and magazines.
More than half the words in English are imported. If we only used the
words known to the Angles, conversation would be pretty limited. It's
the enormous and growing collection of foreign words from dozens of
languages that makes English so adaptable.
I heard that in the French slums they have a new language with the
first and second halves of French words swapped around. So much for
the Academie. |
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