[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 92 of 187 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Dagon on 26-May-2002 13:03 GMT | Our market is condemned to shrink because some won't buy a PPC Amiga, some will buy but they will use MorphOS and some will buy just for Linux.
Last night a friend of mine (non Amigan) told me that he want to buy an AmigaOne with Linux but he doesn't give a shit about AmigaOS. With those terms of certification those who will buy Amiga PPC hardware for linux they wont even give a chance to it.
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Why it will shrink?
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-Those that want an x86 AmigaOS won't buy.
-Those that won't have money won't buy.
-Some of the MorphOS fans wont buy AmigaOS
-New users will never come with these terms.
-New hardware from non Amiga companies wont pay a cent to Amiga Inc.
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I don't know what's the solution but I certanly don't need them to "protect" me with their "quality" check.
What I need is many PPC hardware choices. To be able to buy a cheap and faster non Amiga "Certified" PPC motherboard and put AmigaOS on it. |
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