[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 173 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by SC on 28-May-2002 14:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 172 (Samface): Frankly, the Amiga OS isn't going to be Amiga's "killer app" that'll make them rich - that's what AmigaAnywhere is for. But the AmigaOS would make a great way of breaking out into new markets and attracting attention, which would provide impetus for AmigaAnywhere - especially if both projects are integrated at some point.
Going 'open source' and setting up a development/renumeration scheme around it - could help:
(a) break into the x86 market (with an appropriate level of marketing)
(b) help attract support and dedication from the Linux user base.
(b) would be particularly impressed by the open-sourcing of the AmigaOSand a liberal hardware licensing policy, and this is precisely the market Amiga should be targetting with AmigaOS -- bringing them onboard so that AmigaAnywhere can benefit from the apps they develop for OS5/AA.
If AmigaOS is going to have any chance of expanding it's market, it needs to embrace as many different hardware combinations as possible - through an open approach to hardware - for both the numbers and to attract Linux types.
Leaving aside Open Source, Amiga can protect it's intellectual property through something called Copyright, and Copyright Enforcement. Conservative licensing laws will not harm the pirates, who will simply find a way around it as they always do. (Such types are *extremely* unlikely to spend good money on hardware, anyway.)
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