[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 123 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Georg Steger on 27-May-2002 10:37 GMT | > Fact is, Amiga Inc would get the bad image when AmigaOS4 did not run on the "MagicPPC" motherboard because it used a
> Xyzzy southbridge instead of a VIA southbridge, or because the northbridge is different, or for any other number of reasons.
Oh, come one! If someone is stupid enough to buy a motherboard without
checking whether AOS4 runs on it how will certification prevent him
from doing so???
checking whether AOS4 runs on motherboard == look up the supported-motherboards-
list on some official AOS4 website.
If he doesn't look up such inforamtion before buying some motherboard, he
will not know about the certification thingy either, so it doesn't help him
prevent buying the wrong motherboard, as he will not look for any
certified-for-aos4 sticker on the motherboard or anything.
And anyway: the danger to buy an unsupported motherboard is IMHO waaaaaay
smaller than the danger to buy an unsupported mouse/keyboard/printer/scanner/
gfx card --> so why don't these have to be certified? |
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