[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 42 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by DaveW on 26-May-2002 08:52 GMT | And heres the key misunderstanding:
* 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.
When what it really is:
* In order to be considered "hardware capable of running AmigaOS" the hardare must first be modified with AmigaOS specific extensions to its "boot ROM". All hardware that is considered "hardware capable of running AmigaOS" MUST ship with AmigaOS4.
Therefore.
If you produce a POP board then it is NOT automatically "hardware capable of running AmigaOS" and therefore does not come under the policy.
Once the board has the AmigaOS specific extensions added it DOES come under the policy.
One wonders why a third party would then add those AmigaOS specific extensions if they didnt want to be subjected to quality control or ship AOS with it?????
I really suspect part of the problem is translation. The other part of the problem is the three wise monkey syndrome, or should that be two wise monkey syndrome because they havent half been verbal for a group of people that have refused to understand this.
Dave. |
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