[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 54 of 280 | ANN.lu |
Posted by anarchic_teapot on 06-Jun-2002 09:11 GMT | In reply to Comment 29 (Tbone): >Because it requires the manufacturer to create a separate product line, even >Eyetech has to have separate boards for POP, and AmigaOS. Separate BIOS's have >to be produced for each one.
Nonsense. The AmigaOne *is* a POP board, whether it has the Amiga ROM installed or not. The ROM protection code isn't instead of OpenFirmware boot code, but in _addition_ to it. Adding the Amiga ROM enables the board to run AOS4+.
Also, don't confuse BIOS and OpenFirmware: BIOS (there are several) are proprietary, and apply to x86 boards intended to run some flavour of Windows.
There is no requirement to have a separate product line. The boards will quite happily run Linux as-is. Eyetech - or anyone else prepared to produce mobos guaranteed to run AOS correctly - don't have to produce non-AOS-enabled if they don't want to.
If the demand is big enough, they will. Meantime, it's in everyone's interest - including yours and Seehund's - to have a minimal, non-invasive, form of copy protection for AOS *so that Amiga and its partners can make enough money for the Amiga to continue to exist*.
In the meantime, I don't see Eyetech complaining about the hypothetical extra problems this ROM might involve. |
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