[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 68 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 26-May-2002 10:53 GMT | In reply to Comment 54 (André Siegel): Andre (sorry I can't bring up the accent at present):
>Which is pretty much the same thing Amiga/Hyperion plan to do with AmigaOS4.
>Dual-boot AmigaOne? Won't happen!
Dual-boot AmigaOne can happen, but only if OS4 is on there (and presumably, Amiga may want another round of conformance testing if the second OS is MOS?).
This makes it a bit annoying for a consultant who'd like to buy up a small stock of boards and sell the licenses the customer needs. (Which happens to be the business I'm thinking about getting into, as LAN monkeys are in big demand around here.) Anyone trying to do that with A1s going to have to dual-order from Eyetech, so they may as well dual-order A1s for Amiga customers and Pegasosen for NetBSD/Linux jobs... which, I think, is going to impact the commoditization of the A1, people rackmounting iMacs notwithstanding. |
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