[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 127 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Graham on 27-May-2002 11:34 GMT | In reply to Comment 126 (Seehund): > Now we know that there's no chance that AI will ever design, make or sell any
> hardware, so I think they should adjust their thinking to that of a software
> company and try to get their product used on as much hardware as possible.
But they are allowing this.
It is just a simple requirement that the person selling the hardware gets certified (i.e., the hardware is guaranteed to run AmigaOS4, the seller will provide hardware support for its use with AmigaOS4, etc) and they can also use the AmigaOne name. An AmigaOne is shipped with AmigaOS4 - no problem there, that is logical.
There is no discrimination against hardware companies - it is fair. This is the most open Amiga market ever as well.
If people want to use the Pegasos with AmigaOS4, you should be petitioning *bPlan* to get the board certified with AmigaInc, and to guarantee hardware support with AmigaOS4, and guarantee *quality* service. Amiga and Hyperion have made it quite clear that they are happy to certify the Pegasos / make AmigaOS4 run on it should it be submitted for certification, and bPlan (or someone reselling Pegasosen) will provide the necessary support.
Because bPlan otherwise will not provide any support for AmigaOS4 on their hardware, which makes AmigaInc have to take the flak for any problems caused the hardware and the resultant bad name that Amiga will get.
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