[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 140 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Georg Steger on 27-May-2002 13:24 GMT | In reply to Comment 124 (DaveW): > An Amiga branded solution would be guaranteed to work out of the box
In what way is "AOS4 runs only on certificated ppc motherboards"
better than "AOS4 runs only on the following supported motherboards"
to make sure that an user buys the correct motherboard?
Either the user knows about this/has read this, or he hasn't. If
he hasn't he might buy the wrong motherboard. If he has, he will
not buy the wrong motherboard. But the text ("requires certified
motherboard" or "following motherboards are supported") is irrelevant.
So certified motherboards are not better than simply a list of
supported motherboards in making sure an user does not buy a
wrong/unsupported motherboard.
If, as you say, most users don't know what they are buying and just
buy out of the box, then certification doesn't help them at all,
since they don't know about the certification. If they are seeing/wanting
to buy some unsupported ppc motherboard there won't be any "NOT certified
for AOS4" sticker on it, I guess ;-) |
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