[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 183 of 280 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Marcus Sundman on 07-Jun-2002 09:02 GMT | In reply to Comment 173 (Tbone): > On the contrary, it's been stated many times by Amiga that all licensed
> hardware must be sold with AOS.
This is not the problem. Actually this is quite obvious, and you wouldn't want it any other way.
However, the problem is that "AOS won't run on unlicensed hardware". If AOS would run on people's hardware then people would just buy AOS if they want it, but if the OS is copy-protected not to run on your hardware then you can't just buy it, and hence the only option left is to crack the copy-protection system in it, and when that is broken then AOS will be easily available on the warez scene. To prevent this from happening AOS should be made available to all compatible hardware so that you don't have to crack the copy-protection if you want to run it on your POP board.
As Ben Hermans (IIRC) previously stated there are other copy-protection systems available. So why not _also_ make some other copy-protection system available (perhaps at some additional cost) that can be used when you want to run your AOS on an unlicensed board?
I do believe that Ainc will go down this road before long, so I'm not so upset that the first version will be available only as OEM. However, many people seem to want to run AOS on pegasos so maybe even the first version of AOS should be made available also as a separate product so that PSOS people also could buy it instead of having to get it through illegal channels. |
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