[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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AmigaOS + POP/PPC petition official web site : Comment 13 of 280 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 06-Jun-2002 06:07 GMT | I must remark that Hyperion fully endorses Amiga Inc's distribution policies.
The main reason behind that stance is very clear: piracy.
Currently there is a wide variety of servers hosted all over the world that carry our products like Heretic 2, Shogo and Freespace for download.
Heretic 2 showed up for download the same day it was released.
Despite our best efforts to give people a sneak peek of what a game is about or how it will run on a given system by releasing demos prior to the games itself, quite a number of people persist in pirating our software and that of other commercial developers thereby threatening the future of commercial development on the Amiga.
The OEM policy adopted by Amiga at least means that every time you buy an AmigaOne, you're buying AmigaOS 4 and are thereby compensating the hard work of some 30 developers.
It's imperative that piracy of OS 4 is kept to a bare minimum because without the much needed revenues, we cannot guarantee further development of OS 4.
Hyperion is a commercial company with full-time professional developers which is your best guarantee for a good product.
If OS 4 were to be sold separately, piracy would again be rampant and would eat deeply into the already uncertain revenues of OS 4.
This is a far bigger threat to the platform's continued existence than the rather theoretical appearance of yet another POP solution at an affordable price which would not be certified in some way or another by Amiga. |
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