[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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Comment 1 | Ole-Egil Hvitmyren | | 25-May-2002 18:56 GMT |
Comment 2 | JoBBo | | 25-May-2002 19:09 GMT |
Comment 3 | Jürgen | | 25-May-2002 19:10 GMT |
Comment 4 | Jack Me | | 25-May-2002 19:15 GMT |
Comment 5 | Prang | | 25-May-2002 19:26 GMT |
Comment 6 | Darrin | | 25-May-2002 19:50 GMT |
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Petition: AmigaOS distribution policies and PPC hardware : Comment 7 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 25-May-2002 20:03 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (Prang): I've said it before; buying the product if you want it but feel the protection scheme is unfounded will get more recognition than any boycott. It's counterintuitive, but the way to get through is to pony up the cash and demonstrate that there *will* be a profitable majority of paying customers who want to see saner licensing terms.
(More specifically, I've already said I'm a fan of per-seat, home/SOHO, and corporate licensing tiers. The obvious problem is that AI has per-seat obligations to Tao- and perhaps Hyperion?- so the more sales made, the better the position they're in to renegotiate terms... and the more *friendly* pressure kept up, the more they'll consider improving customer satisfaction.)
If you could care less about OS4/AA/DE, there's not much sense complaining. If you do care- you want to see AI make some cash and move forward, you want to run the software, you want to try to build the whole community/job market surrounding the software so you won't be forced into work as an MCSE or Perl monkey, whatever- then you need to prove you *will* exchange your money for goods and services, and speak loudly (and reasonably; a GPLed OS4 isn't going to happen any more than ditching 'bus arch' ;)) about what you will be willing to buy in the future.
More succinctly: boycotting Amiga in its current state is like lecturing a starving man on veganism. Give the company some time to ascend the class hierarchy... |
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