[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 159 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by gz on 27-May-2002 19:53 GMT | In reply to Comment 158 (DaveW): >If you make a statement that is libellous about a third party to one other person then you are subject to the law. >Regardless of whether or not its a personal thought or not and regardless of media. >There have been cases of people being taken to court and sued mightily for doing stuff like this.
Hmmm... Technically you may be right in your frenzy of nitpicking, however the same thing applies to you and everyone on this public forum. Should we all stop exchanging our personal thoughts here because we might get sued by AInc, bplan, hyperion, eyetech and h&p to name a few? What you suggest above could be sanely applied if I was somehow agitating and recruiting people to revolt against amiga inc.
I have seen you posting your own personal opinions about morphos and bplan and I have no problem with that as they are your own thoughts presented in public.
Yet it hasn't ever crossed my mind to start accusing you of making "political" allegations, when in fact you are just using your right of free speech and thinking in a democratic society.
If the actions you are talking about above would be applied to ann forums, 80% of people here could be sued, depending on the subject. It wouldn't make much sence to have a public forum where you weren't allowed to say your personal opinion.
It would be different if you were a company thinking out loud.
>you should be careful about making such statements, if you do this with frequency you increase the >likelyhood that you get a whopping legal clip around the earhole.
>Dave.
Come on man, listen to what your saying =D AInc could sue half the ann forum visitors to court for posting their personal opinions online?
That's scary shit... Sounds like somekind of nasty scifi movie where the future is dominated by evil facist companies enslaving the people. |
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