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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 Comment 12 Wayne Hunt 07-Jun-2002 17:03 GMT Amiga Inc Software Licence - Poll : Comment 13 of 22 ANN.lu Posted by [JC] on 07-Jun-2002 22:45 GMT All AInc have to do is this: 1) Publish a set of guidelines a board must conform to to be marked "AmigaOS 4 ready", and have a certification system. Make it so only certified vendors can advertise thier board as being AmigaOS compatible, but don't prevent non-certified systems running it. 2) Make AmigaOS such that board specific parts are all done by drivers (like Windows 2000) and therefore can be given on a CD by a board vendor. Generic "fallback" drivers should be implemented in this case 3) Put the protection device in a USB dongle or so. Sure, it'll be cracked to work without the dongle, but having protection in a ROM won't stop it being cracked either. Funnily enough, this sounds like the PC market doesn't it. Maybe there's lessons to be learnt from the "arch enemy" that'd benefit all in the Amiga community. Also, where the hell is all this rubbish coming from about MorphOS being nothing more than an emulator ? All it does is provide the AmigaOS classic API's (like WINE) via a 68K emulator (like the Mac), and things like WarpUp API's (it runs our WarpUp code better than WarpUp does itself), on top of it's own kernel (I don't belive AInc when they say it contains stolen code) Remember, prior to AInc slapping unfair terms on the deal, MorphOS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE OFFICIAL AMIGAOS 4. Having said that, I am neither pro-Morphos or pro-AmigaOS4. I belive in a choice. That is all. My opinions are my own and not neccesarily those of my employers. Jump... Top Previous comment Next comment bottom List of all comments to this article (continued) 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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