[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 149 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by gz on 27-May-2002 14:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 148 (graham): >It is hardly a personal thought to basically write online that Amiga Inc have unethical marketing.
Well then perhaps you should have read the original post to which DaveW was replying to. I specifically stated there that: "All my thoughts above are presented in IMHO(tm) and as such are not to oppress others in sharing same views. "
I made no claim at AIinc. Just my personal opinion of the situation.
>No backup, no reasoning supplied.
What backup? What reasoning? Are there any backup proof that I could use PRO Ainc or PRO Bplan? No, there aren't. I haven't seen the insides of the licence, and I doubt that you have either. Nor have seen the personal emails exchanged by bplan, amiga inc. hyperion and eyetech to name a few. None of us know the WHOLE truth or all of the reasons.
So there is no way for me to be able to present anything other than a personal opinion of mine, which is based on what I have seen so far being done by Ainc and others. If you don't agree then GREAT! :) It means I cannot use my personal views to oppress you to share mine. Why should I like AI being allowed to do that then? |
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