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[Rant] Amiga Inc Software Licence - Poll ANN.lu Posted on 07-Jun-2002 09:51 GMT by Rodney McDonell 22 comments View flat View list A Poll concerning the AmigaOS + Hardware licencing Amiga Inc have dreamed up has been posted @ Amiga.org. The poll was set up so that the community could gather a better idea to how many people like/dont care/hate the licenceing. Those who also think its too late to do anything, also get a chance to vote. Thanx to Wayne Hunt, Amiga.org Administrator for fixing the Polls :) List of all comments to this article Sorted by date, most recent at bottom Comment 1 Rodney McDonell 07-Jun-2002 07:52 GMT Comment 2 SlimJim 07-Jun-2002 08:56 GMT Comment 3 Anonymous 07-Jun-2002 09:49 GMT Comment 4 SlimJim 07-Jun-2002 10:02 GMT Comment 5 |Lando| 07-Jun-2002 12:13 GMT Comment 6 Rodney McDonell 07-Jun-2002 12:38 GMT Comment 7 Joe 07-Jun-2002 13:01 GMT Comment 8 SlimJim 07-Jun-2002 13:13 GMT Comment 9 SlimJim 07-Jun-2002 13:19 GMT Comment 10 Seehund 07-Jun-2002 15:07 GMT Comment 11 Seehund 07-Jun-2002 15:10 GMT Amiga Inc Software Licence - Poll : Comment 12 of 22 ANN.lu Posted by Wayne Hunt on 07-Jun-2002 17:03 GMT For the record here guys, while inspirational, the poll has nothing to do with the petition. While I officially do not support Amiga Inc's solution to straddle AmigaOS to outdated and proprietary hardware, I think Seehund's petition is meaningless and moot. After watching the stupidity for a while, it was rather apparent to me that there were four distinct ways that people thought. 1) They liked it 2) They didn't care 3) They thought AI should release an open-hardware solution (no g'dammit, I am not advocating piracy!!!![though I personally feel the anti-piracy argument is bullspit]) 4) They think that none of this really matters, as it's too late for AI to make a dent in the market. As such, I wondered what, given those four elemental choices, people would choose. It's a damned poll people, I was curious. Don't make the mistake however of confusing my curiousity with any dumbassed "boycott" or "petition" which doesn't make a damned bit of difference to Amiga Inc. Let's face it here people. Amiga Inc has made no pretense of caring about the Amiga community in quite some time. They are after a bigger market (the one we once represented) and let's also accept one fact here that no one has mentioned. The "Amiga community" has become Amiga Inc's worst public relations nightmare. Admittedly, that's because despite Bill McEwen's own PR history, they can't help tripping over their own feet where the community is concerned. Wayne Hunt Amiga.org Jump... Top Previous comment Next comment bottom List of all comments to this article (continued) Comment 13 [JC] 07-Jun-2002 22:45 GMT Comment 14 anarchic_teapot 08-Jun-2002 07:05 GMT Comment 15 Tbone 08-Jun-2002 07:13 GMT Comment 16 Rodney McDonell 08-Jun-2002 12:09 GMT Comment 17 NihilVor 08-Jun-2002 16:33 GMT Comment 18 Sven Harvey 08-Jun-2002 21:36 GMT Comment 19 Wayne Hunt 09-Jun-2002 01:06 GMT Comment 20 Sven Harvey 09-Jun-2002 10:35 GMT Comment 21 far 10-Jun-2002 21:06 GMT Comment 22 Samface 12-Jun-2002 07:36 GMT

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