[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 108 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Graham on 26-May-2002 17:45 GMT | In reply to Comment 92 (Dagon): > What I need is many PPC hardware choices. To be able to buy a cheap and faster
> non Amiga "Certified" PPC motherboard and put AmigaOS on it.
Where is the cheaper and faster non-Amiga certified PPC motherboard?
You might not care about quality, until your board breaks, the fly-by-night maker has disappeared and you have a dead system in your hands. Why are people so intent on dissing Amiga Inc's plans for quality for the consumer? Get Amiga certified, get AmigaOS guaranteed to work on your hardware, and you are ready to go.
You can buy PPC motherboards for Linux without AmigaOS4. You just can't call them Amiga's - seems fair to me. So what is wrong with this?
The entire concept is simple: if you want to release a motherboard for the Amiga market running AmigaOS4, then get the board certified by Amiga Inc and provide decent backup support for your product. You can then use the AmigaOne name, AmigaOS4 will be made to work with your product, and you sell computers to consumers running AmigaOS4.
This is the most open the Amiga market has ever been. Anyone can make the hardware now. However some people just seem to want to diss Amiga Inc for any reason. There will be zero chance of the Amiga market growing if there is bad hardware, or companies providing bad support for their hardware, because people will associate Amigas with "bad" and not even risk it. A good user experience will however make people more willing to risk money on a completely different computer system, although it will still take a long time, good word of mouth, good demonstrations and good reviews.
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