[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 118 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Graham on 27-May-2002 08:23 GMT | In reply to Comment 115 (Oh Boy!): But they aren't.
Fact is there is one PPC motherboard out there anyway. There is not a whole galazy of different PPC motherboards you know. If a company makes a new PPC motherboard, then they (or somebody else if that company doesn't want to do it) can get it AmigaOne approved and sell it with AmigaOS to the Amiga market.
Some people here seem to think that AmigaOS4 would run just fine on the Pegasos if this scheme was not in place. I can tell you that it wouldn't. The northbridge is unknown (suspected to be the MAI Artica S, but not definite) and the southbridge is different from the one in the AmigaOneG3-SE anyway, so extra drivers would be required. And whilst bPlan are having a tizzy fit over getting a board to Hyperion and getting themselves Amiga certified for their hardware, AmigaOS4 will not run on that motherboard, dongles or not. |
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