[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 125 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Graham on 27-May-2002 11:10 GMT | In reply to Comment 123 (Georg Steger): > 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?
The motherboard is one of the central parts of the computer. If the motherboard is crap, or poorly supported, then people will complain that "Amigas are crap" when in fact it is "Xyzzy computers running AmigaOS is crap".
AmigaInc don't want people thinking that "Amigas are crap", hence the quality requirements that some companies do not appear to want to provide. And the additional reduction in casual piracy is also good for Amiga Inc and the market, especially as the market is so small currently.
People will blame the printer/scanner if it doesn't work, which is good for Amiga Inc. Scanners will be the biggest difficulty with AmigaOS4, they are mostly proprietary, especially in the USB arena. I don't see any form of mouse or keyboard having a problem, they run on standard interfaces and protocols. The graphics card is an issue of course - it looks crap for Amigas if they don't support Xyzzy graphics cards (e.g., nVidia GeForce) when the person buys one. But these things are available everywhere, so return it to get a different card - a bit more of a hassle to return a no-name motherboard to a foreign country if it doesn't work as you hoped.
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