| [Rant] Amiga Inc Software Licence - Poll | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 07-Jun-2002 09:51 GMT by Rodney McDonell | 22 comments
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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 Sven Harvey on 09-Jun-2002 10:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 19 (Wayne Hunt):
Firstly I want to say that I respect your opinion on this, though I certainly don`t agree with it and, Wayne, you are on eof the last people on the planet I want to get into a slanging match with.
At no point did I say that I thought those opposed to the licensing agreement were pirates, simply that I did not see AT THIS POINT what anyone could lose by the licensing system, other than the pirates. In 12, 18 or 24 months time things could be radically different...
Your heart appears to be in the right place but....
1. How can Amiga Inc. satisfy our needs if they don`t determine them?
2. What do you stand to lose from this licensing system? IF further PowerPC based boards do become available what makes you think Amiga, Inc. and thier partners won`t be able to provide OS4.0 with an anti-piracy device (which doesn`t have to be a ROM)of some description for boards not specifically made or OS4.0? EVen if there was no copy protection involved wouldn`t the cost of an "open" OS4.0 not end up being the same, from a business point of view, as the cost of an OEM version and the license fee from the board added together anyway? After all the AmigaOS is a commercial product, not a Linux-like open source OS, and should be the better for it.
3. Why would anyone want to use a board even if it was a smigen cheaper that isn`t being developed specifically as an AmigaOne anyway? I get the general feeling (and I am by no means an expert on hardware, believe me)that the more different boards and hardware solutions there are the more bloated the OS will have to become to work on them all. IS this not one of the major reasons why Windows is so damn lame? MS have to try and make the OS work on every x86 board, every PC part in creation. Do we really want this? I personally would much prefer a concise efficient system that is much more fully integrated. Are we not losing part of the Amiga advantage by fully opening the hardware up? Imagaine if you will when the A3000 was out, what would have happened if loads of cloned versions turned up all using slightly different bits of hardware - the OS would have had top be changed somewhat - would it have been the same expereince for all those people? I sincerly doubt it.
In reflection I apologise if my previous posting caused any offense, I certainly didn`t mean to, but as I have thought about this I have come to the conclusion that I am not convinced that I would want to use open-architecture motherboard, as I wouldn`t be sure it would work as well as a G3-se or its replacements.
I know what I would like to see (and I`m going well into dreamland here), and thats to see IBM making a PowerPC motherboard specifically as an Amiga in association with Amiga, Inc., Hyperion and Eyetech and some deal done with Nintendo for the new Amigas to be used as development platforms for the Gamecube...
Also this whole thing about Amiga Inc. being a software company is wrong. I do not agree with them taking this stance, and think they should take a more active leading role in hardware development in the way that Apple, Commodore etc. have done to ensure the things work the way they are supposed to. Because lets face it I have never used a PC that in my eyes worked properly in comparision with any of my Amigas.
I understand that you probably won`t agree with any of that, which I repect, but at least its a debate rather than a flame war, which helps no-one and some real issues are being addressed which I appreciate.
Sven Harvey (in the UK by the way) again
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