[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 :)
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Posted by Wayne Hunt on 09-Jun-2002 01:06 GMT | In reply to Comment 18 (Sven Harvey): > 3. This is an anti-piracy measure, and the only people who stand to lose
> from this licensing system are those who want to use OS4.0 but are not
> willing to pay for it.
Bullshit. Absolute, unmitigated bullshit.
I have never in my life, ever pirated a copy of AmigaOS. I have paid for, or been given as a gift, every copy of AmigaOS that I've ever owned, on legitimate disks since 1988 (when I began). I want to be able to run AmigaOS on an open architecture system (as Amiga Inc promised... then again what's a little white "promise" between friends?).
I do not want to be tied down to -- and charged extra for -- what Amiga Inc thinks is the only thing we need. Determining our needs is not their business. Satisfying our needs is their business. (something they don't understand).
Wanting individuality and the freedom to make my own choices make me an Amiga user, not a pirate.
Hardware manufacturers who are currently (or will be soon) designing and making open-architecture motherboards will have no interest in, and certainly no incentive for, going to Bill McEwen and begging to pay him for the priviledge. They're also not about to rework their device in order to incorporate some lame-assed, unnecessary, 1985 leftover idea of copy protection.
Want to fool yourself into thinking this is about piracy? Fine. Go right ahead. Want to delude yourself into thinking a ROM will stop piracy? Go right ahead. I sincerely hope you're right and I pray that I am wrong, but don't fool yourself. "This" is not about piracy.
Don't give me the bullshit about Quality Control either. The PC World has multiple processor choices and roughly 100+ motherboard brands and models to choose from. In my 15+ years of working with PC's and Amigas, I have never bought some mythical "bad quality motherboard" and with the exception of one (1) instance in 1998, I've never had a single motherboard go bad. But wait... even that motherboard was only $130 and was an ASUS (better brand name) whose bus controller heat sync fell off (my fault).
Every motherboard and processor I have ever bought for the PC has worked as designed, to the fullest of my satisfaction without the need for some lame-assed licensing plan (which apparently raises the price by $400 by the way).
I'm also damned sure that -- like me -- most of the people here -- outside of possibly Shawn the Bus Arch Troll -- know how to research and purchase a motherboard of substantial quality. The only instability I have ever seen on a PC is caused by Windows. This is a FACT that I cannot claim about the stability of Amiga hardware and the now "same as shareware OS" known as AmigaOS...
Using Bill McEwen's marketing and licensing model, we're guaranteed of no more than maybe two choices of motherboard. Neither of which, in my opinion will ever be produced in sufficient quantity or quality to surpass being able to buy a top-of-the-line motherboard and processor for under $300 which is now incredibly easily possible on the PC.
"This" is about Bill and company's lack of vision, and their desperate need to secure their ability to get paid. It is also a guarantee that AmigaOS' future is moot.
No one is going to pay exhorbitant prices for hardware for a commercially unsupported OS simply because they have a vague fondness for it. (See BeOS, See Linux, See OS/2, see...) No one is going to pay Fleecy for the priviledge of redesigning their hardware to support a GNDN (Star Trek Trivia) piece of 1995 software which has only been made to go faster and look "pretty" (both of which could have been done in 1992).
Sorry guys, I know this is prophetic, but in my never so humble opinion as far as AmigaOS is concerned, the party is over, the lights are turned off, and we're just sad little geeks, dancing in the dark.
Amiga DE/Anywhere/whatevertheyarecallingitthisweek is a horse of a different color. Hopefully it is not the dead, beaten horse it appears to be with all the "partners" bailing out on it.
Wayne Hunt
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