[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 188 of 280 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 07-Jun-2002 09:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 175 (SlimJim): It's not.
There won't be anything stopping piracy for the Cyberstorm or the BlizzardPPC.
Which makes it even more imperative in my eyes to get some kind of OEM form of distribution for Amiga licensed hardware.
No matter how many times you post it, this misconception keeps popping up time and again:
That the ROM dongle is somehow the only way to distinguish licensed from unlicensed hardware and that two production lines would need to be maintained.
Wrong. A USB token could for instance serve the same purpose.
So a manufacturer could sell the same identical hardware to those users who specifically want the hardware with OS 4 and for others with another OS like Linux.
(Exchanging roms is a very trivial affaire BTW but not even that is required).
I'm absolutely confident that if there is sufficient demand from the Linux community that Eyetech will sell the same hardware to them with a slightly different rom if they don't want OS 4 with it.
Eyetech is a business, they are in business to make profit and meet demand. |
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