[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 Anonymous on 07-Jun-2002 09:11 GMT | In reply to Comment 57 (DaveW): > Agreed. These guys cling on to the last vestige of ill informed fud from the
> pro BPlan/MorphOS lobby and no truth will ever change it.
This has got nothing to do with MorphOS. Are you really so
blinkered that you can't comprehend a criticism of Amiga as
anything other than pro-MorphOS FUD?
> - The fact that they still go on about needing to modify the hardware to
> support AOS4.
That's the whole basis of the petition. Sheesh! These people are
saying that OS4 can technically run on any POP board but can't
because of this anti-piracy "dongle".
> - The fact that they still wont accept that the A1 is a POP board EVEN though
> they go on about it being no different from Mais POP board ( it is different
> but still POP actually ).
I don't understand where this point comes from. The petition
authors are saying that the A1 *is* a POP board and that AmigaOS
can run on any POP board.
> - The fact that they go on about draconian licensing terms. They are? How? No
> one has uttered one convincing word that makes it sound draconian.
It's restricting my freedom to use the hardware I choose, despite
the fact that the AmigaOS HAL is designed to work on POP boards
-- a fact with which you concur.
Also, what happens if in a few years my A1 board dies and Eyetech
are no longer producing them? I've no choice but to ditch that
version of AmigaOS that I was using. This would be a perfectly
acceptable situation if other POP boards weren't available but
were useless because of the absence of AmigaOS dongle. In other
words, my freedom to use the OS I bought has been restricted by a
questionabe method of ensuring that the OS can't be pirated.
("Questionable" refers to whether or not the "dongle" will be
effective).
> - The fact that some still havent got their heads around the difference
> between hardware manufacturers, vendors and software makers despite having it
> explained [n] times.
This sounds like another baseless attack. I've never encountered
anyone who needs that explaining.
> Its business not charity - get it through your heads!
Agreed. So I don't see why I should donate any money to the
"Amiga cause". I'll buy whatever hardware/software combo I like.
Whether or not it has an Amiga badge on it or not is of no
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