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Posted on 25-May-2002 20:50 GMT by Seehund187 comments
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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 176 of 187ANN.lu
Posted by smithy on 28-May-2002 20:31 GMT
In reply to Comment 166 (DaveW):
>The whopping flaws are that you summarise the executive update and claim that
>it makes two points which it clearly does not.
Which points? Spell them out, or at least cite the comment in which you listed these "flaws".
>You have refused to listen to anyone on this, obviously. You see a criticism
>of the petition and you see red each time.
You don't seem to be listening either. I have posted twice that I believe the massive signing of this petition is more to do with the negative opinions towards Amiga Inc rather than the original issue.
>AInc didnt say 2/3 of the things you claim either
Which things? Can you name them? Unless I've missed your comment naming them, possible in this long thread, and I apologise if I have. But please list these two things, or at least give the comment number where you did list them.
>Congratulations Seehund in being so consistent in that and your sneering tone
>which does you so much credit.
Your tone is often quite patronising. You also seem to have aligned your position to an extremely pro-Amiga Inc one... I'd be interested if you could back up your opinions...
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