[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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Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 25-May-2002 21:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (Adam Kowalczyk): Adam said,
>It's pretty obvious to me that the people that are against
>Amiga's policies concerning licensing and the copy protection want to run OS
>4.x on the Pegasos.
Hey, technically I'd want to run OS4 on the Pegasos, if I ended up with a Pegasos to run it on. The 'problem' I'm reacting to is people being vocal for the sake of being vocal (you say you want a revolution... well, y'know...) without thinking through a game-plan to actually achieve their goal. (Of course, given my dozen insomniac posts today, I'm vocal for the sake of it as well, but I like to think I'm Mostly Harmless.) It's like seeing a "Save the Whales, Down With Exxon!" bumper sticker on an SUV. (No, the SUV isn't to represent either company, it's an analogy for human ignorance...)
I do feel that less effort should be spent on figuring out how to keep the system from running, and more spent on actually making it run so I have something to buy! That's obvious; nobody asks for a kick to the head, but they might take it in favor of having their knees broken, insert comment about Microsoft's auditing initiative here.
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As to eating crow, this particular chapter in Amiga history will be the one that gets written differently in each side's memoirs, if they ever get to the point of having an audience to read them. Hopefully both will contain the story of some heroic hackers making a midnight run to the local dealership, buying the "competition's" hardware, and facing management with running product. That seems to have been the Amiga spirit, in practice. ;) |
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