[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 242 of 280 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Marcus Sundman on 07-Jun-2002 20:04 GMT | In reply to Comment 240 (Donovan Reeve): > No O.S. maker can chase varying motherboard standards.
This is not true, but let's not go there.
No one is asking Ainc/Hyperion to chase anything. AFAIK they already conform to the POP standard (if this is not the case then please correct me). If they conform to the POP standard then they should be compatible with standard POP boards, right? The problem is that although OS4 is technically compatible with some boards it still won't run (unmodified) on those boards simply because Ainc won't sell OS4 separately.
I believe that selling OS4 separately _and_ with all licensed boards would result in more copies of OS4 being sold than if OS4 is sold _only_ with licensed boards. I also think that if OS4 is available for purchase then people might not be as eager to crack it and distribute it illegally.
(It does not matter if Ainc/Hyperion says that OS4 can't be run on some specific POP board. People still want to try it. Why do you think those linux people make linux work on all weird hardware? It's not like they would use linux on a cash register or something. They just want to prove that it works on it. If linux was made available for the cash register from the start then noone would be interested in making his own version to run on one.
This is not a very good example, but the basic principle still holds.) |
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