[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 119 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by DaveW on 27-May-2002 09:49 GMT | In reply to Comment 118 (Graham): Whereas I think that some like Seehund genuinly are seeking clarification over the licensing
direct from Amiga Inc ( apparently logic and others reasoning does not have the credibility with him
- fair enough ) others are seeing this as a reason to bash Amiga Inc. and defend the
"poor beleagured Pegasos".
Few of these people run a business, in fact some of them dont have to earn money in
a paid job in order to survive day to day. Near zero are going to have had real experience
with the computing industry beyond the pages of Linux Format or PC Shopper and
a significant amount want free beer.
Forget trying to explain it further, if it underminds their current standpoint
pride will stick in their throats and they will ignore it or focuss on a spelling
mistake rather than tackle the nub and crux of the matter.
I think Amiga Inc should resend its Executive Update out to those that have signed
this petition underlining the bits that these people have got wrong ( if any have
indeed read it ) and thats enough. If they arent willing to read what Amiga Inc has to
say then f**k them.
I suspect that the signees arent going to be willing to accept anything other than
Amiga Inc being bent over and porked heavily by BPlan in order to ship AOS4 with the
Pegasos to give BPlan the very minor advantage that it still has - being able to ship
MorphOS with the mobo as well.
I think Amiga Inc should go its own way, ship A1SE and A1XE with AOS4 and SUSE as
planned, let Shark and other boards go through the branding scheme as previously agreed
and once BPLan realiases theres little or no profit in the PPC Linux market ( free beer
and the why should I buy a PPC mobo when I can have a Celeron mobo for less ) and
a limited future for MorphOS ( sorry I cant see what gap it is trying to fill ) it
will *have* to start playing ball.
Thats the future as I see it.
Dave. |
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