[Rant] AmigaOS + POP/PPC petition official web site | ANN.lu |
Posted on 06-Jun-2002 04:30 GMT by Seehund | 280 comments View flat View list |
AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk is finally online!
Here you'll hopefully find all information you could possibly want about the "AmigaOS distribution policies and POP/PPC hardware petition". I hope the background information and FAQ will be especially helpful to clear up any confusion surrounding these issues.
If you have not yet signed the petition, then please do so now! Please help spreading the word by linking to AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk. It's not too late to save our favourite OS and a unified POP-based hardware market!
In other news, I have finally managed to get in touch with the PetitionOnline.com administrators. The few abuse and sabotage attempts so far have been removed from the signatory listings. Not that any garbage would ever reach the recipient of our petition, but I understand some thought that it didn't look too good...
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Posted by |Lando| on 06-Jun-2002 16:16 GMT | In reply to Comment 110 (Mekanix): Jees.. another idiot. Are all you MOS guys sharing the same defective braincell or something ? It doesnt seem to matter how many times you're rold something it just doesn't sink in.
>Anyway, how many years have softwarevendors been fighting piracy? 15-20 years?
Software vendors haven't. Software developers have.
>How many years have they been loosing?
"losing" - 15 years or so ? since the 8-bit days...
>So how many month will pass by 'till AmigaOS have been hacked, cracked and >patched and starts to show up on various piratesites? It's just a matter of >time. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it.
Probably. I'd prefer a proper Kickstart 4.0 ROM and ditch that shitty PC-Clone BIOS.
>So why these anti-consumer measures, when they wont stop piracy anyways?
>2) They've been FUDing bplan/MorphOS for years calling them thiefs,
>uncooperative and whatnot.
They said MorphOS contained copyrighted Amiga code. It did / does. That is a fact. If it didnt, then Mos wouldn't have had anything to worry about - they could have just gone ahead and released it. The fact that after Amiga Inc. told them that they couldnt use the stolen code MOS then announced a delay in the release is the proof. Ask laire.
>But never actually providing any proofs for their
>claims to the public nor any judges (doubt Amiga Inc. will *ever* sue...
>smells like they've got no case whatsoever...).
They won't sue because MorphOS team is removing the stolen Amiga code from their OS. If MorphOS had been released as a commercial product with the copyrighted code still there then Amiga Inc could / would have sued and would have won.
>Now Amiga Inc. not only wants
>them to dongelise their Pegasos-board but to bundle AmigaOS4 alongside their
>MorphOS, thus increasing the price of a pegasos-board. Wonder why bplan aren't
>so keen on Amiga Inc.'s "offer". All this of cause makes the pegasos less
>atractive for those still undecided whether they'd like to test AmigaOS4 or
>not.
Huh ? If bplan would like Pegasos to be able to run AmigaOS4 then they have to adhere to the same terms that every other prospective OS4 platform has to adhere to. You're saying Pegasos should be made a special case ? That would be unethical and uncompetitive.
>Unethical and uncompetitive.
Wrong. Every prospective OS4.0 platform gets exactly the same terms. As has been explained over and over again... |
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