[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 212 of 280 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Trizt on 07-Jun-2002 10:53 GMT | In reply to Comment 204 (Anders Kjeldsen): > You're not interested in Eyetech's sales? But Eyetech are, and I don't
> think that Eyetech are interested in having this piracy-protection if
> OTHER PPC-boards (except B/CPP) don't have to have it. And if Eyetech
> don't want to have it, then that will lead to more piracy of AmigaOS4
> and that's bad for Hyperion. They're all important to eachother. And
> if Hyperion wanted a totally free market, I guess they would go for
> x86. I also think that more hardware platforms also lead to more
> diffucult support.
As enduser, you can't think about a companies sales, it your wallet that talks, maybe you have loads of money, I don't. I wish to get my things as cheap as possible. With a "piracy-protection" you get high prices as you have a limited amount of boards to choose from and eyetech will take as much as possible to get as much profit as possible.
If Hyperion would fear piracy that much, they would have said to Amiga Inc that they aren't willing to develope AmigaOS4 for them.
Don't forget that the hardware will be limited more than in just the motherboard way, as there won't be support to many expansion, atleast not on the graphics board side... you won't get much of freedom, just a voodoo3 card. |
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