[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 30 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Sam Dunham on 26-May-2002 05:59 GMT | In reply to Comment 25 (André Siegel): "Wrong. Amiga's/Hyperion's OEM license says that one is not allowed to sell certified hardware with any other OS besides of AmigaOS4. (No MorphOS, no LinuxPPC, no AROS PPC, no OpenBEOS PPC, ... you get the picture)
Ben Hermanns: [QUOTE]By definition, if a dealer or third party goes to the trouble of getting an OEM version of OS 4 for certain hardware, he will want to ship it with OS 4 and not with anything else.
I fail to see how this affects users not interested in OS 4.[END QUOTE"
Which does not disallow the hardware manufacturer from selling one machine with MOS and an exact replica with AOS. They just can't be on the same box AT THE TIME OF SALE... which I highlight because I also don't see anything keeping them from selling the system with AOS preinstalled and then selling MOS seperately to install later. |
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