[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 156 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by DaveW on 27-May-2002 18:47 GMT | In reply to Comment 151 (smithy): [blah blah]
Please re-read what I said. You took issues with me and others pointing out the petition is flawed because it claims to summarise the executive summary with three assertions of which two do not exist in the summary. Thats just a technical issue. How do you think AInc will see it based on those two whopping flaws? A credible petition? No.
Sure people are disenchanted with AInc, but people are disenchanted with MOS, with BPlan and with those that are so disenchanted they post unsubstantiated crap about AInc! You only have to look on ANN to see that.
The signing mechanism is flawed because anyone can post anyone elses names, no validation is taking place and it appears that people have not actually read it before posting. Some of the signatures are going to be based on what is in the petition - but they are signing a flawed petition!
Having created, signed and worked with petitions before it does you no good whatsoever to make assertions without pointing to the evidence where those assertions have been made. It also does you no good to incorrectly summarise a document and invent new parts to a document which do not exist.
Sure, do petitions. But do it correctly!
Technicalities. Jee whizz. |
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