[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 36 of 280 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Samface on 06-Jun-2002 08:01 GMT | In reply to Comment 30 (Bladerunner): "Do you realy think that if someone wants to run AOS on a non licensed POP Board,
He isn`t able to do that?"
Well, he could of course reverse engineer his own HAL for AmigaOS4 but I assure you that cooperating with Amiga Inc. and their AmigaOS4 partners would make things *alot* easier. Besides, if it wouldn't work properly, guess who the customer would blame for it...
Once more, just because AmigaOS4 runs on one POP motherboard, that doesn't mean it will magicly run on any POP based motherboard. Every POP based motherboard will still require it's own specific HAL in order to run AmigaOS4 and the AmigaOS4 developers cannot do this without cooperation from the hardware manufacturer. The license is the key to this kind of cooperation and combining this with a copy protection such as the ROM code makes it beneficial for both the license holder and the licensee.
I'm telling you, the license policy is a good thing(TM) and doing it any other way would just make things worse. Please drop this whole petition thing as what you're doing isn't beneficial to your own cause, on the contrary. |
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