[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 56 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by DaveW on 26-May-2002 10:23 GMT | In reply to Comment 54 (André Siegel): Thats just ONE of Microsofts fun practices and one which I dont actually argue with. Its what OEM branding is all about.
What caused the contention was the pressure that they put on any OEM ( financial ) if the OEM shipped any systems WITHOUT MS Windows but with a competitor OS.
Also the bundling practices on the desktop are akin to the BPlan bundling of OS with hardware. You could add your own browser so LONG as you did not modify any settings, icons or defaults. Ergo the default browser was IE unless the user expressly chose to modify it. You could not remove IE. Thats bundling.
Sound familiar?
Well yes, and then there was the bundling of MVS, tools, compilers etc that IBM did that forced any vendor to use that bundle with any IBM mainframe they resold. Part of the out of court settlement was that vendors were able to replace any element of the system as they saw fit. Ergo the platform was unbundled into DFSMS, LPPs, MVS, Comms Server etc. Vendors could pick and choose. From *IBM* you could only buy the bundle.
Wow that sounds REAL familiar. After the breakup of the strongarm tactics you could NOT run MVS on any other host system unless it was certified by IBM and you had a proper support mechanism there. Much more liberated, sounds like the AInc policy?
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