[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 175 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Anonymous on 28-May-2002 16:17 GMT | The only strange thing is that some people support the current licensing scheme
of Ainc. I agree with the petition, Amiga INC as a software company CAN not dictate to which hardware amigaos 4 will run or more elegantly stated to which
specific PPC motherboards.
I also dont understand how intelligent people can believe the statements about
quality assurance, helping the amiga community, strengthening the Amiga name etc
As a long time amiga user i *want* the AmigaOS to *FINALLY* break through stupid
restrictions and be availiable for *everyone* in the open market.
What i see in Amiga INC statements is the continuous struggle for *TOTAL* control of everything.
I WANT the amigaos4 to run on a variety of ppc motherboards.
I WANT to have a choice in buying different PPC motherboards.
I WANT to see the amigaos running on PPC hardware that is not Amiga certified.
I WANT to see the amigaos finally beeing availiable to non amiga hardcore users.
THEY dont want amigaos running on non certified motherboards, and my opinion is
not because of quality/piracy issues, they want to control the hw market as well.
A software company can not REQUIRE from hardware manufacturers to license amigaos AND sell amigaos with every mb sold.
This is stupid, unethical and it WILL definetely not increase the amiga user base.
Face it people, hyperion should try to make amigaos portable across different
PPC motherboards. AmigaINC should not care if my PPC motherboard can also run
MorphOS.
A LinuxPPC user buying Pegasos will never be able to run AmigaOS on it.
It is the job of Hyperion/Ainc to change the licensing scheme and NOT bplan or
<name of another ppc manufacturer here who doesnt give a fuck about amiga>
to license amigaos for its hardware.
Restriction is bad.
We want CHOICE people, CHOICE. |
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