[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 72 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by André Siegel on 26-May-2002 11:06 GMT | In reply to Comment 56 (DaveW): >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.
Again, this is not quite true. Lots of of people complained about the fact that it's almost impossible to sell dual-boot machines which come with another OS besides of MS Windows.
Don't you remember the story about that Japanese manufacturer who intented to sell Windows-based PCs along with a copy of BeOS? In addition, you should visit slashdot.org from time to time. Many Linux users are quite upset about that anti-dualboot clause in Microsoft's OEM license.
>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."
I think that's a rather bad comparison. If customers don't need YDLinux or MorphOS, they are free to remove either from their harddisk and/or to destroy the appropiate CDs.
Windows users don't have that option as IE cannot be uninstalled by default. Nor is it possible to disable the installation of IE during the Windows setup process.
Moreover, I'd like to add that I personally don't object the fact that Microsoft includes a version of IE with every copy of Windows. What I *do* feel bad about is that dealers must not bundle their Windows-based machines with addtional third party software such as Netscape's Navigator or Opera's browser.
Would anybody mind if most new PCs came with THREE browsers pre-installed? I'm sure many customers would appreciate if they were given several alternatives to choose from. Which is true for operating systems as well! |
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