[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 227 of 280 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Marcus Sundman on 07-Jun-2002 13:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 226 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): > It's only natural that we ask something in return:
> that every Amiga licensed hardware other than the Cyberstorm/BlizzardPPC is
> sold with OS 4
I think everyone agrees that this is OK.
What people don't like is that you can't buy OS4 and run it on unlicensed hardware. Since there _will_ be people with unlicensed hardware that could run OS4 this will leave no other choice for those people than to crack the copy-protection system of OS4 so that it can be run on their hardware.
I don't want this, nor do I think you want it either.
I truly believe that OS4 would sell better if it was sold with all licensed hardware _and_ as a separate package (including USB-dongle or whatever) to be used on unlicensed POP boards, than if it was _only_ sold with licensed hardware.
Do you, Ben, believe otherwise? Or don't you care how many copies of OS4 is sold and only want as many A1 as possible to be sold? |
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